Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
In the following paper, I aim to form relationships between different patient factors and no-show rates. The culmination of these relationships will then be used in a logistic regression model. Data collected from a survey at 26 HonorHealth clinics were analyzed using odds ratios and relative risk methods. Of 310,307 visits collected, 22,280 of them were no shows (7.2%), an 11% decrease from national averages (18.8%). This fueled the study, along with a grant filed by HonorHealth looking at the impact of telehealth on the working poor. A binary logistic regression method was run over the data, and less than 1% of patients' no-shows were predicted correctly. By adding factors, and improving the diversity in the data collected, model accuracy can be improved.
