Career Connection

For this discussion, you will discuss your future career and how statistical analysis may be used in that field. Find a peer-reviewed research study relevant to your chosen career and that presents statistical information to answer the research question.

For your initial post,

State your future career and discuss how statistical analysis may be used in that field. What types of projects might involve statistical analysis in your future career? (Medical Practice Manager)
Summarize the article’s content and point out any statistical procedures you recognize from this week’s reading.
What research question did the authors investigate?
What variables did they use?
Did the article include any graphs or charts?
If so, what types were they? Did they help you to understand the information better? Why or why not?
Is this article something that will be helpful in your future career? If so, how?

ANSWER

Future Career and Statistics

Everyone has their career which they are desired to do in the future or which they are trying to improvise on. Each person has a different perspective of a career because of passion and talents. Many careers are associated with statistics (Harrington et.al 2019). My future career is to be a medical practice manager. This paper will discuss how my future career will use statistics.

Clinical workers employ statistics in the keeping of patient records. The records of students need to be stored in a safe way (Harrington et.al 2019). These records help in the analysis of the patients that visit a certain health facility. This analysis will help to estimate the number of patients who are fond of attending this hospital (Harrington et.al 2019). The analysis will also help to determine the number of health workers required in a business.

The statistics in my future career will also be employed when purchasing drugs and equipment required in a health facility (Gamble et.al 2017). This will enable the medical center to calculate the cost of requirements and arrange their budget within the estimated cost (Gamble et.al 2017). As result, statistics are very critical in the career of medical practice manager.

My future career will also use statistics in measuring success as well as failure in my workplace (Gamble et.al 2017). The data analysis and interpretation from my career will be used to measure the performance as well as output. The measure of the output will be used to determine whether there is a failure or success in my work (Gamble et.al 2017). This will help to change operations to make sure that I perform better in my career.

In conclusion, statistics are used in all careers to measure performance and help in allocating resources.

References

Gamble, C., Krishan, A., Stocken, D., Lewis, S., Juszczak, E., Doré, C., … & Loder, E. (2017). Guidelines for the content of statistical analysis plans in clinical trials. Jama, 318(23), 2337-2343. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.18556

Harrington, D., D’Agostino Sr, R. B., Gatsonis, C., Hogan, J. W., Hunter, D. J., Normand, S. L. T., … & Hamel, M. B. (2019). New guidelines for statistical reporting in the journal. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1906559