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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
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The weighting

"Prescribing Units are used to weight prescribing information to allow information users to compare practice or PCO level information. The weighting is applied based on the patient list information with patients under the age of 65 and temporary residents being counted as a single PU, and patients aged 65 or over are being counted as three PUs. No. of PUs = No. patients under 65 + No. temporary residents + (No. patients 65 or over x 3)."
https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2019-04/INFO_GlossaryV1.xlsx
What do "to weight"in "to weight prescribing information..." and "The weighting" in "The weighting is applied..." mean?
What does "unit" in "prescribing unit" mean here?
  

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In this kind of data collection for scientific study, "to weight" is to assign numbers in such a way that a higher number gives greater importance to a piece of data, and a lower number gives less importance to a piece of data. In the example you have presented in your post, a PU is a " P rescribing U nit", and one unit has the value of "ONE" on the weighting scale. You can think of these units as points in game — like the scores in a football match.

— CalifJim

  • In this kind of data collection for scientific study, "to weight" is to assign numbers in such a way that a higher number gives greater importance to a piece of data, and a lower number gives less importance to a piece of data.
  • In the example you have presented in your post, a PU is a " P rescribing U nit", and one unit has the value of "ONE" on the weighting scale.
  • You can think of these units as points in game — like the scores in a football match.
  • The more importance a situation has, the more PUs it is assigned.
  • "Assigning a number of PUs" is the same as "applying the weighting".
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In this kind of data collection for scientific study, "to weight" is to assign numbers in such a way that a higher number gives greater importance to a piece of data, and a lower number gives less importance to a piece of data.

In the example you have presented in your post, a PU is a "Prescribing Unit", and one unit has the value of "ONE" on the weighting scale. Y

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