PVB + Research Skills Flashcards
Affinity or similarity bias?
Tendency to favour people who are like you in some way.
Confirmation bias?
Looking for and valuing further information that confirms decision/opinion.
Mitigate bias? UAAS
Understanding, awareness, accountability, success.
Best possible care for individual and population? SEPTEE
Safe
Effective
Person centred
Timely
Efficient
Equitable
Sustainable?
Reduce environmental, social + financial impacts of health service.
SMART?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time bound
Quality improvement? SSDIS
Smart goal
Studying system
Designing improvement
Implementing and evaluating change (plan, do, study,act)
Sustain, embed, spread.
PDSA cycle?
Act, plan, do, study
Quality improvement and research?
Research - intent to derive knowledge, generalisable or transferable, observational.
QI - Service evaluation, audit.
Stakeholders
Commissioners
Service users
Clinicians
Administrative staff
TEPEES
Timely
Effective
Person centred
Efficient
Equitable
Safe
Shared view
Safe, effective, caring, responsive and person centred for user.
Well led, sustainable resources, equitable for all for providers.
How to know if self centred?
Health watch
Kay representation
Codesign opportunities
Patient report outcome measures
Normal range vs reference range?
Reference range - data from a sample of a reference population.
Normal range - less strictly defined, a range derived from a healthy reference population.
Continuous vs discrete vs categorical?
Continuous - infinite numbers or values between any 2 values. E.g. numeric date or time.
Discrete - countable number of values between any two values. E.g. customer complaints or number of flaws or defects
Categorical data - contain a finite number of catagoties or groups. E.g. gender, material type, payment type.
