Epidemiology in Healthcare - Week 5 Project

Week 5 Final Project

 

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Instructions

NCF:

This final project assignment is associated with the NCF (non-completion failure) grade. Failure to complete this assignment will result in the issuance of a grade of NCF if the course average would result in a failing grade in the course. Students should contact their Academic Counselor or Program Director if they have any questions regarding the NCF grade and its implications.

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

· Evidence-Based Management

· Evidence-Based Management

· As we learned in Week 1 of the course, in order for managers to make the best decisions using evidence-based management (EBMgt) techniques, they must know how to choose credible information. Knowing how to find credible sources requires critical analysis skills. Analyzing data for credibility requires screening for several types of bias. For example, an author might use only secondary data that supports his or her hypothesis. At the same time, managers must take care not to choose only information and data that support their own agendas. Analyzing the credentials of authors is important, since anyone can publish information on the Internet. Knowing what is being said on social media and in the news is important, but that alone cannot be relied upon. Also, some authors might have something to gain, such as when products are being sold. Managers must ensure that information and the references used by authors are current. Peer-reviewed articles are typically considered credible, but analyzing who conducted the peer review is important, also. And, finally, managers must review several different sources to ensure that information is consistent.

· Use of EBMgt might be somewhat foreign to managers in healthcare. Traditionally, decisions have been made based on personal beliefs and from what peers have done in their own organizations. Management decisions have also been made based on what a product salesperson promises to be the best. Although sometimes the best practices of others work, decisions should be based on actual studies that show clear, positive outcomes.

· Leaders and managers in healthcare make many organizational decisions on any given day. Just as medical decisions should be made based on credible research data, management decisions should also. Using facts to make decisions can set an organization apart from those that rely on imitating the practices of others. The desire to be better than others should exist, and use of factual data can play a key role in rising to the top. Everyone wants to be a successful leader whom others want to emulate.

· Evidence-Based Management Process

· As per Harvard Business Review (2006), evidence-based management is the art of making decisions on the basis of facts instead of beliefs and experience alone. Below you will find a list of actions leaders should embrace to ensure their employees and practitioners become evidence-based managers.

· Becoming a Company of Evidence-Based Managers

Before beginning work on this assignment, please review the expanded grading rubric for specific instructions relating to content and formatting.

Clinicians are practicing EBM when they use data from research that shows desirable outcomes and then make decisions on how to treat patients. Likewise, leaders and managers use EBMgt to make decisions on how to operate, improve, or add new services to a healthcare organization.

You are the chief executive officer (CEO) of an acute-care hospital. The governing board has expressed interest in adding a new service line, a twenty-bed geriatric psychiatric unit. This unit would be constructed in an existing vacant space within the hospital.

Create a preliminary market analysis for a geriatric psychiatric unit. Your primary focus for this project is to research credible sources for data that should be used in creating an evidence-based analysis. This analysis will then be used to determine the need and potential success or failure of the new service line.

Assume the unit will maintain a census of twenty patients per day. The market analysis must include the following data:

· Population of the service area that will be required to support the new service line

· Satisfaction of geriatric psychiatric patients in other similar organizations

· Profits in other similar service lines

· Requirements and costs for staffing the unit

Submission Details:

Your assignment should be addressed in an 8–10-page document, not including your title and reference page. Much depth and discussion from thorough research is needed to complete this heavily weighted assignment.