A5: Managing information and data within the health and science sector. Flashcards
What is qualitative research method?
Text-base describing something that may involve numbers e.g. patient history.
What is quantitative research?
Measurements e.g. length, heigh, age and time. It can be either.
Give the meaning of discrete research.
Something that you can count e.g. numbers.
Give the meaning of continous research.
Something that can be measured e.g. blood glucose.
What is a public database?
Clinical databases rather than published research.
Prospective
Observes a group of people over time.
Retrospective
Looks back at data from groups years back.
Give the meaning of a focus group.
Highly structured interview, participants are usually selected on the basis that they will have something to say.
What is an open/closed question surveys?
Gathers factual information.
Closed questions require a simple answer, quick and easy to carry out.
Open questions require a longer answer or explanation and allows more info to be provided.
What is an interview?
- Open-question survey can improve quality of data collected but can be more complex.
Give the most appropriate way to present data
- Tables
- Graphs and charts
- Scatter graphs
- Line graph
- Bar charts
- Histograms
- Pie chart.
How important is accuracy of information?
Comply with legal requirements
- Ensuring anonymity limit liability.
- Provide account of events.
- Help collab and intergrated working and data sharing.
- Ensures accurate analysis of findings.
- Provides evidence needed in support of audit trail.
What does the term repeatable mean?
Carrying out an investigation several times in the same place.
What does the term reproducible mean?
Investigations carried out by different people using different methods.
Give the pros and cons of Real-time observations.
PROS
- Can get data immediately.
CONS
- Can possibly become subjective - cannot be measured.
What new technology is appplied to managing information?
AI machine/learning
Mobile technlogy and apps
Cloud-based systems
Digital information management systems.
What laws are in place for protection of personal information?
Data Protection Act 2018
- Implement GDPR
- Controls use of personal information
UK GDPR
- Provides a set of principles which any individual or organisation processing sensitive data must apply.
Give the meaning of the word ‘objective’
Fact-first approach relies on documental observations and descriptions.
Give the meaning of the word ‘subjective’
Relies on a person’s own mind and opinions, personal feelings, opinions and interpretations.
What are the positive uses of social media?
- Awarness campaigns
- Correcting misinformation
- Crisis communication and monitoring
- Data gathering
- Establishing support networks
- Recruitment
- Marketing
What are the restrictions of use of social media?
- Not posting sensitive/personal information about yourself or others
- Maintaining professional boundaries when interacting with individuals outside of work.
- Not sharing inaccurate or non-evidence based information.
How do security measures protect data?
- Controlling access to information
- Allowing only authorised staff within a specific work area
- Regular and up-to-date training
- Making regular backups of files
- Using recent and updated cyber security.
- Ensuring back up data is stored externally.
What actions should be taken if information is not stored securely?
Secure information where possible
- Record and report the incident to the designated person and follow organisations policies and procedures.
Give the advantages of using IT systems to record and store data.
- Easy to access and transfer data
- Speed of data analysis
- Standardisation of data
- Ability to have continous and real time monitoring of data.
Give the disadvantages of using IT systems to record and store data.
- Security breaches (malicious or accidental)
- Potential corruption of data
- Lack of access due to system failure.
