Statistics, Ethics, and Management

While regulatory, management, and statistics concepts are commonly considered pertinent primarily for examinations, the mastery of this skillset allows for effective leadership in an intensive care unit. In the modern multidisciplinary model of critical care, an intensivist needs to be comfortable interpreting quality metrics as well as medical literature. Additionally, an understanding of the regulatory role of government and how such policies affect the care of patients is directly pertinent to interactions with hospital administrators and peers of other specialties. This chapter provides a general overview of these concepts for the examination, but the reader is encouraged to read more into the background of these topics in order to gain a practical mastery of these concepts for practice.