HMGT 400 3 PART DISC

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DICUSSION1

Consider examples of research questions below:

1. Does the organization of renal transplant nurse coordinators’ responsibilities influence live donor rates?

2. How, if at all, are the timing and location of suicide prevention appointments linked to veterans‘ suicide rates?"Examples of Research Questions | PhD | School of Nursing | Vanderbilt University," n.d.)

Reference

Examples of Research Questions | PhD | School of Nursing | Vanderbilt University. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://nursing.vanderbilt.edu/phd/clinicalfaq.php

Chose one of the questions and apply what you learn in week 2 to explain:

1. The process of developing a researchable question.

2. What type of background evidence and defined problem served as a base of the researchable question.

3. Think about what will happen after the question is formulated.

· READINGS Conduction Health Services Research (embedded below)

· " Conducting Health Services Research " from the South Sudan Medical Journal

· Performing a Literature Search (Embedded below)

· PICO: Formulate an Answerable Question (if the link does not work try this: https://ph.cochrane.org/sites/ph.cochrane.org/files/public/uploads/Unit_Five.pdf)

· Answering an Answerable Question

· Formulating a researchable question: A critical step for facilitating good clinical research

· Asking good clinical research questions and choosing the right study design

· Health Service Research: scope and significance

DISCUSSION 2

Explain the differences between Research Methods and Research Design. Provide a description of two method examples and two examples of design types. When each is used? What is the process of choosing a correct research method and a correct research design? 

READINGS

· Descriptive Statisticsssentials of Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services, Chapter 1: The Role and Function of Quantitative Methods in Health Services Management 

· Doing Quantitative Research in Education, Chapter 1(consider how the methods are applicable to healthcare service research): Introduction to Quantitative Research

· Why we need observational studies to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare 

· “Utilization of maternal health-care services by tribal women in Kerala” (in eReserves)

· Descriptive Statistics              

DISCUSSION 3

Discuss the need for quantitative research in the healthcare service field. Provide an example of a researchable question that will be investigated with quantitative research. Explain which research methods and designs can be applied to the chosen question research. What challenges and biases may impact the study results? 

READING

· Data Collection and Management (embedded below)

· Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

· Sampling Technique PPTs. (embedded below)

· Sampling Techniques

· Data Preparation

· Data Preparation and Data Mining (Exploratory)

· Data Preparation, Validation and Reporting

· Using Research to Inform Healthcare Managers and Policy Maker's Questions

· Core Competencies for Healthcare Managers

· Health Care Databases and Health Care Organizations    

· Read book chapter from:  Sengstack, Patricia, et al. Mastering Informatics: A Healthcare Handbook for Success. Sigma Theta Tau International, 2015.