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The Times-Divide Expression: An Intuitive Approach for Describing Right-Skewed Data in Nursing Practice

Haruna Fukushige1, Yoshiaki Inoue2, Keisuke Nakashima3

  • 1Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

Journal of Nursing Management
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

This study introduces a new data analysis method, the times-divide expression, for nursing. It better represents skewed data distributions than traditional mean and standard deviation, improving clinical decision-making.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Informatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Data Science in Healthcare

Background:

  • Clinical nursing practice requires clear data sharing for team collaboration.
  • Traditional descriptive statistics (Mean ± SD) are insufficient for asymmetric, right-skewed data common in nursing.
  • Accurate data representation is vital for effective clinical decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate the "times-divide expression" (Geometric Mean ×/Geometric Standard Deviation) as an alternative to Mean ± SD.
  • To assess the applicability of the times-divide expression for analyzing nursing data, specifically nurse call system data.
  • To demonstrate the advantages of the times-divide expression in representing skewed data distributions.

Main Methods:

  • A data-driven study using four and a half years of nursing demand data from a nurse call system.
Keywords:
arithmetic mean and standard deviationclinical nursing practicedata utilizationdata visualization

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  • Comparison of the "times-divide expression" (GMean ×/GSD) with conventional statistical methods (Mean ± SD).
  • Evaluation of the methods' ability to represent distributional properties, provide representative values, and indicate percentile ranges.

    • Main Results:

    • The "times-divide expression" significantly outperforms conventional methods in describing skewed data distributions.
    • This novel expression provides more suitable representative values and usable percentile range indicators for nursing data.
    • The geometric mean and geometric standard deviation offer a superior approach for analyzing asymmetric data.

    Conclusions:

    • The "times-divide expression" is a more effective statistical tool for analyzing skewed nursing data compared to traditional methods.
    • Implementing this method can enhance nurses' understanding of data-driven insights.
    • Improved data representation is expected to enhance clinical decision-making and the overall quality of patient care.
    right-skewed distributions
    times–divide expression