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Which is the best type of graph to show ranking?
To show a ranking the best graph would be a bar graph. It is an easy visual of which has more or less.
If we rank claims from most to least frequent, which service category would be at the top of the list (most frequent)?
Which would be at the bottom?The most frequent claim is Curative visits with 1,110 and the least frequent is speech therapy for the northern claims.
In the Eastern Zone claims curative visits are the most frequent and the least frequent are tied with inpatient medical and inpatient obstetrics. The rankings only differ in the least frequent category.A line graph would be best to graph membership over a period of a year. The answer does not change if you want to graph membership comparison (employee/spouse/dependent) or to show Northern verses Eastern membership trends.
You might need to create two graphs to show all of those things so that isn’t too busy that it isn’t easy to read.
I have only encountered these in statistic courses and when I did research. They are easy to understand and use. The challenge is using them where it makes the most sense to show a distribution like the data set we are using. At my job I rarely see these utilized and that maybe lack of understanding of when to use them/ why they would be useful for utilization management.
According to Few, a dashboard has to serve a purpose, can be viewed on a single screen, easily understood. The dashboard may be simple, but it does show all the necessary information at a “glance” so that the hospital can see if they are meeting their goals.
Similarly, the book also states that the dashboard should show “key indicators” to achieve a purpose. The WHO dashboard has the goals/targets for each indicator. The book does include in its definition that a dashboard is usually graphical. However, it does not state that it must be graphical to be considered a dashboard. If we only consider graphs to make up a dashboard, then the WHO dashboard would not be a dashboard.The WHO maternity dashboard does meet the Few and book criteria for a dashboard. The dashboard is not just a report that requires further analysis. The WHO dashboard is perhaps a dashboard in the simplest form.
