Original Post instructions (for reference): From your reading you learned that economics is the allocation of scarce resources. In public health you will be looking at trade-offs: should time and money be allocated to this preventive activity or would it be better spent elsewhere? The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: https://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/ lets you look at how money was spent for hospital services. Run a query and share your findings.

Response instructions (for completion): In your response to your classmate, compare and contrast the information gathered from the query. Discuss how this information could be helpful to you in your current or future public health career.  1/2-1 page AMA format

Classmate Wang’s response:

I ran many queries on the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality website. I have decided to share about two queries. The first query (Emergency Department National Statistics) lists out the total number of visits, percent of visits, % admitted to the hospital, mean age and percentage of male in the first table.1 No cost was provided, but it does help me in seeing the percentage of transferring from Emergency Department to admission to the hospital as inpatients. The second table includes the percentage of death in ED from the number of visits. The percentage of admitted to the hospital in 2014 was 14.10, and the percentage of death in ED in 2014 was 0.16. Is there a way for the percentage of death in ED be reduced to a lower percentage? The third table illustrates the ED visits with Admissions to the same Hospital. The mean cost was $44,665 with 2.60% death in the hospital. I compared this 2014 with the 2013 data, the percentage of death in the hospital was 2.63% with the mean cost of $41,667.2 Can we assume that there is a direct correlation between money spent and mortality rate? The second query that I ran focused on the Hospital Inpatient National Statistics in 2014. The actual charges for the number of inpatient discharges was $41,633 while the actual costs of providing health care was $10,885.3 There is a difference of about $30,000 between the actual charge and cost for the provided healthcare service. My question now are how we are spending the difference? Can we spend this money in preventive measures?

Original Post instructions (for reference): From your reading you learned that economics is the allocation of scarce resources. In public health you will be looking at trade-offs: should time and money be allocated to this preventive activity or would it be better spent elsewhere? The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: https://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/ lets you look at how money was spent for hospital services. Run a query and share your findings.

Response instructions (for completion): In your response to your classmate, compare and contrast the information gathered from the query. Discuss how this information could be helpful to you in your current or future public health career.  1/2-1 page AMA format

Classmate Wang’s response:

I ran many queries on the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality website. I have decided to share about two queries. The first query (Emergency Department National Statistics) lists out the total number of visits, percent of visits, % admitted to the hospital, mean age and percentage of male in the first table.1 No cost was provided, but it does help me in seeing the percentage of transferring from Emergency Department to admission to the hospital as inpatients. The second table includes the percentage of death in ED from the number of visits. The percentage of admitted to the hospital in 2014 was 14.10, and the percentage of death in ED in 2014 was 0.16. Is there a way for the percentage of death in ED be reduced to a lower percentage? The third table illustrates the ED visits with Admissions to the same Hospital. The mean cost was $44,665 with 2.60% death in the hospital. I compared this 2014 with the 2013 data, the percentage of death in the hospital was 2.63% with the mean cost of $41,667.2 Can we assume that there is a direct correlation between money spent and mortality rate? The second query that I ran focused on the Hospital Inpatient National Statistics in 2014. The actual charges for the number of inpatient discharges was $41,633 while the actual costs of providing health care was $10,885.3 There is a difference of about $30,000 between the actual charge and cost for the provided healthcare service. My question now are how we are spending the difference? Can we spend this money in preventive measures?