Hospitals. Most patients who undergo surgery makeroutine

Chapter 3, Problem 37

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Hospitals. Most patients who undergo surgery makeroutine recoveries and are discharged as planned. Otherssuffer excessive bleeding, infection, or other postsurgicalcomplications and have their discharges from the hospitaldelayed. Suppose your city has a large hospital and a smallhospital, each performing major and minor surgeries. Youcollect data to see how many surgical patients have theirdischarges delayed by postsurgical complications, and youfind the results shown in the following table. a) Overall, for what percent of patients was dischargedelayed?b) Were the percentages different for major and minorsurgery?c) Overall, what were the discharge delay rates at eachhospital?d) What were the delay rates at each hospital for eachkind of surgery?e) The small hospital advertises that it has a lower rate ofpostsurgical complications. Do you agree?f) Explain, in your own words, why this confusion occurs.