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Time Series Analysis Of Patient Attendance
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
University of Uyo Teaching
Hospital since its inception in 1994 has received considerable amount of
people, for treatment medical advice, family planning and a host of
other reason. Different categories of people have patronized the
hospital for its efficiency.
It is therefore in the best interest of
the researcher to use his or her knowledge of statistic application is
the attendance of ill health (patients) attending the hospital. It does
not and here the research as will look forward to classifying, arranging
and recording the monthly, quarterly, annual, bi-annual attendance of
patients in the hospital.
In an attempt to introduce efficient
methods and routine towards comparing the total attendance of, in and
out patient this in general comprises of male, female and children
patient attending the hospital.
To crown it all, it shall be in form
of data (secondary, primary data) depending on the set of people wishing
to use it and purpose or criterion behind using the research, the data
collected will be analysis organized, summarized and compiled. Since
hospital patronage is consistent and continuous process, it will be an
efficient data collection, centres and will promote statistical
application and voluminous data i.e. moving average and time series
analysis.
1.2 AIMS OF OBJECTIVE
To determine whether there is an increase or decrease in patients’ attendance.
To forecast the patient attendance by using linear trend method
To forecast for patient attendance using the fitted trend equation from 2008 to 2012
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The aim of this project is to examine the trend at which patients attends the hospital over the period of study. The study therefore, shows the usefulness of statistics to medicine and hence advice had always been sought by medical and health administrators from the Department of Statistics on the analysis and interpretation of medical data. The work is presented in five chapters. The first chapter being the introduction, the second chapter is the review of related literature where views of vari ... Continue reading---
