Before class:

Catch up on previous readings

In Class

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Medicare Infections
Hospital numbers
Injuries
Medicare Infections 2 (Extra info on this one)

• What information is being conveyed?
• How were these data collected?
• Is the data standardized?
• Are there any ethical concerns about the collection or use of these data?
• Do the results help you understand ethical concerns?
• How are the data represented?
• Can the representation be misleading?
• What conclusions can you draw from the representation of the data?
• Could you use additional data to draw additional conclusions?
• If there’s a model how is it constructed?
• If there isn’t a model what patterns do you see? how would you construct one?
• Does what you see influence you?
• How might these results be used?

For fun

Diagnosing Parkinson’s

Read: Diagnosing Parkinson’s followup

Notes