Discussion

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Population

· Choose a population that you have access to through your chosen site.

· Avoid directly sampling a vulnerable population. If your project involves a vulnerable population, consider how else you might impact care delivery without including the vulnerable population in the direct design of your project.

· Make sure you can link the population to a direct practice improvement that can be measured through patient and practice outcomes.

· Ensure you are specific enough that the inclusion and exclusion criteria are evident.

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Intervention

· Remember, your intervention must be based on a sufficient amount of evidence. Do not base education, interventions, or practices on a concept that is not well-supported in literature. You are to translate existing knowledge into practice through your application of the intervention.

· Look for valid and reliable tools for your intervention.

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Comparison

· Determine how you can compare your intervention to a lack of the intervention or standard of care.

· Ensure you are able to measure what happens when you introduce your intervention as compared to when it is not introduced or before it was introduced.

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Outcome

· Determine if your outcome can be objectively measured.

· Select an established, valid, and reliable tool for measurement.

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Timeline

· Determine if you can complete the project in a meaningful way without a lengthy implementation and data collection period.(any time from 4 to 10 weeks)