Question:You have been asked to recommend a hospital for a friend or a loved one

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Question:You have been asked to recommend a hospital for a friend or a loved one (or yourself) who has suffered a heart attack. Assume that this person’s preferred MD has privileges in the recommended hospital (by the way, for this type of decision, the hospital is more important than the surgeon.choose 5 hospitals within your area and:

a.Propose one or more statistical technique(s) to make the comparison
Justify your statistical procedure(s) selection
b. Perform the comparison and rank the hospital (“1” is your recommended facility)
Explain HOW did you rank the five hospitals?

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please help i have already choosen five hospitals what is the best technique to make comparison in this case? how can i perform and rank the 5 hospitals using minitab based on these criteria: i already have the data in % for the choosen five hospitals i just need a little help the comparison is based on the following and i have it on excel and mintab i need help in ranking.....
Heart Attack patient given aspirin at arrival
Heart Attack patient given aspirin at discharge
Heart Attack Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
Heart Attack Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
Heart Attack Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge
Patients who reported that their nurses "Always" communicated well.
Patients who reported that their doctors "Always" communicated well.
Patients who reported that they "Always" received help as soon as they wanted.
Patients who reported that their pain was "Always" well controlled.

Explanation / Answer

I will take the mean and standard deviation of the response times while a patient needs a help, and will recommend that hospital whose standard deviation is less than others.

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