Health Statistics
Scenario:
As an upcoming audit approaches, you want to ensure that your staff understands the basics of healthcare statistics and research. You decide to create a training packet that will be distributed to all employees in your department. For newly hired employees, the packet will assist them in learning the basics of the department. For current employees, the packet will serve as a review in order to maintain sharpened skills throughout the department. Create a written training piece (traditional paper, handout, outline, etc.) that explains the following information to your staff:
*Remember this is for knowledge and research purpose*
Part I: The 6 steps of the Research Process o Definition of each step in the research process:
1. Define the problem: means to forming a question regarding a topic you would like to study.
Example of the Problem:
Why is the autopsy being decline or denied by the hospital?
2. Review the literature: investigation of all the information about the topic.
Example:
Find information about autopsy with the CDC and the Health and Human services Department. Doing a research of the problem before starting the actual research could be beneficial to prevent doing a research that has already been done.
3. Design the research: there is 5 different type of research and which are include:
a. Exploratory research
b. Historical research
c. Conclusive research
d. Correlational research
e. Evaluation research
f. Experimental research Example of the Design the research: The type of research that suit better the autopsy topic is the evaluation or conclusive. Both help to understand the reason of why the autopsy rate has been going down and to come with the idea of improving the rate and know the cause.
4. Collect the data: including all the data from the research obtained by observation, survey and interviews.
Example of collection of data:
Once the literature has been review and the topic
As an upcoming audit approaches, you want to ensure that your staff understands the basics of healthcare statistics and research. You decide to create a training packet that will be distributed to all employees in your department. For newly hired employees, the packet will assist them in learning the basics of the department. For current employees, the packet will serve as a review in order to maintain sharpened skills throughout the department. Create a written training piece (traditional paper, handout, outline, etc.) that explains the following information to your staff:
*Remember this is for knowledge and research purpose*
Part I: The 6 steps of the Research Process o Definition of each step in the research process:
1. Define the problem: means to forming a question regarding a topic you would like to study.
Example of the Problem:
Why is the autopsy being decline or denied by the hospital?
2. Review the literature: investigation of all the information about the topic.
Example:
Find information about autopsy with the CDC and the Health and Human services Department. Doing a research of the problem before starting the actual research could be beneficial to prevent doing a research that has already been done.
3. Design the research: there is 5 different type of research and which are include:
a. Exploratory research
b. Historical research
c. Conclusive research
d. Correlational research
e. Evaluation research
f. Experimental research Example of the Design the research: The type of research that suit better the autopsy topic is the evaluation or conclusive. Both help to understand the reason of why the autopsy rate has been going down and to come with the idea of improving the rate and know the cause.
4. Collect the data: including all the data from the research obtained by observation, survey and interviews.
Example of collection of data:
Once the literature has been review and the topic