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- Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:02 pm
#107019
Hey Mo28,
You almost had it - using your example, lets say Edgewater Hospital and University hospital both treat 19 patients for cancer and 19 for the flu. For both these illnesses, the recovery rates are similar at both hospitals. Based on that reasoning, the author concludes that University Hospital could decrease the length of stay for patients.
However, the problem with this is the hospitals don't necessarily just treat 19 patients for cancer and 19 for flu. Each hospital probably also has a variety of other patients with a variety of other illnesses or conditions - the argument doesn't account for that at all, yet that variety is contributing to the difference in the average length of stay for patients at each hospital. We can't say that University Hospital can decrease the average length of stay for all patients without affecting the quality of care, because we don't know anything about how the hospitals treat patients with different illnesses (here 'different' means illnesses other than the 'similar illnesses' mentioned in the stimulus).
Hope that helps!
You almost had it - using your example, lets say Edgewater Hospital and University hospital both treat 19 patients for cancer and 19 for the flu. For both these illnesses, the recovery rates are similar at both hospitals. Based on that reasoning, the author concludes that University Hospital could decrease the length of stay for patients.
However, the problem with this is the hospitals don't necessarily just treat 19 patients for cancer and 19 for flu. Each hospital probably also has a variety of other patients with a variety of other illnesses or conditions - the argument doesn't account for that at all, yet that variety is contributing to the difference in the average length of stay for patients at each hospital. We can't say that University Hospital can decrease the average length of stay for all patients without affecting the quality of care, because we don't know anything about how the hospitals treat patients with different illnesses (here 'different' means illnesses other than the 'similar illnesses' mentioned in the stimulus).
Hope that helps!