Importance of Medical Statistics

Medical statistics is the study of human health and disease.Its applications ranging from biomedical laboratory research, to clinical medicine, to health promotion, to national and global systems of health care to medicine and the health sciences, including public health, forensic medicine, epidemiology and clinical research. It is a branch of statistics  commonly named as biostatistics. It is the science of summarizing, collecting, presenting and interpreting data in medical approach and using this data estimate the magnitude of associations and test hypotheses. It has a main role in medical investigations. Biostatistics has played an integral role in modern medicine.Statisticians help researchers design studies,analyze data from medical experiments, decide what data to collect, help interpret the results of the analyses, and collaborate in writing articles to describe the results of medical research. Biostatistics helps researchers make sense of the datas collected to decide whether a treatment is working or to find factors that contribute to diseases.Medical statisticians design and analyse studies to identify the real causes of health issues  as distinct from chance variation.

Why Are Statistics Important in the Health Care Field?

Now a days health care organizations employ statistical analysis to measure their performance outcomes. Hospitals and other large provider service organizations continuous quality improvement programs, implement data driven, to maximize efficiency.Government health and human service agencies measure the overall health and well being of populations with statistical information.

Health Care Uitilization

Researchers use scientific methods to gather data on samples of human population. The health care organizations benefits from knowing consumer market characteristics such as age, sex, race, income and disabilities. These type of statistics can predict what type of services that people are using and the level of care that is affordable to them. 

Resource Allocation

Statistical information is necessary in determining which resources are used to produce goods and service ,what combination of goods and services to produce, and to which populations to serve them. Health care statistics are critical to production efficiency and allocation. Valid statistical information minimizes the risks of health care trade offs.

Needs Assessment

 Public and private health care administrators, charged with providing continues care to diverse populations, compare existing services to community needs. Statistical analysis is a major component in a needs assessment. Statistics are equally important to pharmaceutical and technology companies in developing product lines that meet the needs of the populations they serve.

Quality Improvement

Health care suppliers struggle to make effective goods and services efficiently. Statistics are important to health care organisations in measuring performance success or failure. By building benchmarks, or standards of service excellence, quality improvement managers can measure future results. Analysts chart the overall growth and ability to survive of a health care company using statistical data gathered over time.

Product Development

Innovative medicine begins and ends with statistical analysis. Data are collected and reported in clinical trials of new technologies and treatments to weigh products benefits against their risks.Statistics indirectly influence pricing of product by describing consumer demand in measurable units.

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