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In 2013, Peter Morrison co-led the statistical redesign of the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network surveillance algorithms, cutting false-positive catheter-associated bloodstream infection alerts by 62% without compromising detection sensitivity. That work reshaped how U.S. hospitals interpret real-time infection data, shifting emphasis from raw event counts to risk-standardized, time-adjusted incidence trajectories. He doesn’t treat datasets as static artifacts but as living records embedded in clinical workflows, regulatory timelines, and human decision latency. His consulting practice refuses off-the-shelf models; every analysis begins with a 90-minute ‘process audit’, mapping where uncertainty enters a client’s operational chain, not just where numbers live. Trained in both biostatistics and cognitive psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill, he routinely translates p-values into delay-cost tradeoffs for hospital COOs and frames confidence intervals as staffing contingency buffers for public health directors. His notebooks contain more marginalia about nurse shift handoff patterns than R syntax.
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- “How did you adjust NHSN’s infection algorithms to reduce false positives without missing real outbreaks?”
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- “How do you quantify the cost of delayed decisions—not just wrong ones—in healthcare analytics?”