1. How to Make Effective Poster and Oral Presentation
Dr. Shivon Boodhoo
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2. The Best Presentations
Less is more.
No paragraphs, few colors, concise and to the point
Use a clean, uncluttered standard template
A picture is worth a thousand words
Bite sized, digestible pieces of information.
Newspaper headlines and Google result summaries
Engage your audience Don’t bore yourself!
Tell a story from beginning to end
This is a sales pitch
Proofread!

3. Report Title
Presenter name
Advisor & Department
Date
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4. OVERVIEW OF THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Shivon Boodhoo, PhD HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING RESEARCH GROUP Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering NJIT
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5. Introduction Slide 2 Template Background Literature Review Objectives
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS RESEARCH?
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8. Literature Review
Boodhoo, Shivon “How to make effective systems” IIE Transactions, August 2018 p
Perna, Angelo “How to make solar systems” Solar Systems Today, January 2000 p. 112

9. Contributing factors to the high cost of healthcare in the U.S.
Focus on sick care instead of well care
Lack of Universal Health coverage
Market factors
Low levels of regulation and high levels of lobbying in healthcare
Use of new technologies for competitive advantage and a shift to outpatient care
Lack of Health IT and coordination of care
Defensive medicine
High rates of obesity and chronic disease
High cost of aging and end of life care
Lack of patient accountability
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10. Research Objective 1
Describe research objective
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11. HOSPITAL UNIT OF CARE (HUC)
Definition: Set of resources required for delivery of one general medical-acute care inpatient day which includes the needed healthcare staff, ancillary and support services and facilities to deliver the required (acceptable quality) continuum of care.
What is not included: Outpatient care and services, specialty or intensive care, surgeries, prescribed services, prescribed diagnostics, enhanced facilities, patient complexity etc.
Our approach: To define an equivalency parameter for each of the additional care/services that the hospital provides. This allows us to roll-up all the reported hospital direct patient care activities into a unified output measure. Specifically we focus on a federally standardized list of activities. Six activity components are modeled.
Example:
1 Intensive Care Patient Day = 2.3 HUC
Which means an ICU day requires 2.3 additional units of resources compared to a general med-surg day
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12. Research Objective 1 Results
Describe results – Pictures, graphs, Analytics
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13. Research Objective 1 Results
Describe results – Pictures, graphs, Analytics
The results show that both the BRE and NRE are significantly different from the HRE.
Using the BRE or NRE to evaluate hospital productivity is clearly not a precise method and could lead to erroneous conclusions and strategies.
The HRE can be used as the basis to evaluate productivity of all hospitals at the national level. Average HRE = $534 for the Honor Roll hospitals, providing an initial benchmark for analysis.
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14. HUC ACTIVITY TO HOSPITAL OPERATING COST - Correlation
To validate the proposition that HUC is a more reliable indicator of hospital output relative to APD, a regression model of operating costs against (i) HUC and (ii) APD was studied. Both a linear and power models. Data set included 203 US Hospitals.
Operating Cost vs. Annual HUC
(181 Hospitals)
Linear R2 = 0.80
Power R2 = 0.82
Operating Cost vs. Annual APD
(169 Hospitals)
Linear R2 = 0.191
Power R2 = 0.141
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15. Repeat for all Objectives
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16. Significant findings Slide 9 Template
Report significant findings of the research
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17. HRE STATE LEVEL ANALYSIS - CAUSAL FACTORS STUDY (NJ)
Hypothesis Test #1:
HRE is a function of hospital size
Group 1(Small): < 250 Beds (N = 23)
Group 2(Large): > 250 Beds (N =34)
P value = 0.659
Not Significant
Hypothesis Test #3:
HRE is a function of hospital type
Group 1(Teachng): (N = 11)
Group 2(Non Teaching): (N =46)
P value = 0.166
Not Significant
Hypothesis Test #2:
HRE is a function of hospital location
Group 1(Urban):
Median Income < $65,000 (N = 28)
Group 2(Suburban):
Median Income > $65,000 (N =29)
P value = 0.548
Not Significant
CONCLUSION
The three variables hospital
administrators believe to be strong causal factors of efficiency (size, location and teaching status) are not significantly correlated to efficiency for New Jersey hospitals
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18. Discussion and Future Work
Research is never done. All new discoveries open new questions.
What would you do with this work if you could continue for the next year?
Where could that work lead if it was done for the next five years?
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19. Acknowledgements Last Slide Template Advisor, Mentor or Contributor
& Department
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I am grateful for the assistance offered to me by the following individuals and groups, without whom this work would not be possible
Dr. A. Perna and Ms. Zara Williams
McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at NJIT
Dr. D. Misra
Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT
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21. A Research Poster
A Power Point presentation on one huge slide

22. Poster Example