RebeccaVinken

Brain Storming:
1) sports injuries 2) mental diagnosis 3) hospitals and their connection between mortality and staffing productivity

independent variable - staffing is required at every hospital inorder to run dependent variable - the mortality is dependent variable, each hospital depends on their staff, wihtout mortality is sure to go down

Question - does the staffing productivity effect mortality index in each of the hospitals

Hypothesis - Hospitals staffing productivity effects the mortality rate. The more people employed the lower the mortality index. People need the nurses and doctors etc. to take care of them and with a greater amount of staff the lower the mortality index. I predict there will be STRONG NEGATIVE correlation.

Focus is in North America region from year 1998-2005

a number above 100 indicates a hospital had more deaths then expected within a given area lower then 100 means there were fewer than the expected number of deaths. For example 78.6 is less than the bench mark of expected deaths of 100
 * Mortality-** The word mortality comes from the latin "mors"(death). Mortality is a measure of the number of deaths in a population scaled to the size of that population.

- I got my data off a Ontario Health Sciences site that all hospitals are required to put their data in to the records. My sampling technique would be simple random sample because I just went through picking out hospital. As well I used stratisfied sample in order to get large small and teaching hosptials into the data.
 * Staffing Productivity** - is the amount of staff working in each hospital.
 * One Variable Data **
 * Two Variable Data **
 * [[file:Two Variable Analysis rebecca.xlsx]] **
 * Sampling Techniques**
 * Sampling Techniques**


 * Bias**- the biased that would occur in this data is no response. Some hospitals did not put their data in for each year. so I was unable to pick that hospital.

__Conclusion__ there really is no correlation of staff members and mortality index this does not say that you do not need staffing in your hopsital, just means it does not matter how much you have to the size of that hospital.

variables i did not add into the anaylsis that could effect: __Bibliography__
 * Fraser Institute . (2009). Hospital Report card. In //Fraser Institute//. Retrieved January 3, 2011, from []
 * Health Indicator Tool. (2010). In //Ministry of Health//. Retrieved January 3, 2011, from http://www.mohltcim.com/hit/Default.asp
 * mortality in hospitals Ministry Of Health retrieved november 15,2010 [|www.mohitcfim.com/c]
 * staff in hospitals Ministry of Health retrived november 15, 2010 [|www.mohitcfim.com/cms]
 * New Releases. (2004, September 29). In //Cambridge Memorial Hospital//. Retrieved January 5, 2011, from http://www.cmh.org/news_events_item.php?newstype=1&nid=99