Week 14 lecture Flashcards
The four pillars of clinical governance in WA
- consumer value
- clinical performance & evaluation
- Clinical risk
- professional development & management
Clinical governance
A system through which organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish
Clinical guidelines
- provide recommendation on clinical management
- generate national/international consensus on management
- allow for application of research and EBP relating to a specific area of clinical practice
- are not mandatory
Why is EBP important to heslth professionals
- Accountability
- Professional standards
- Clinical competence and safety
- improved practice and service
- Development of clinical protocols and policies
- Applying research to the real world of work
Resources for evidence based practice
- clinical guidelines
- systematic reviews & meta-analyses
- other reviews of the research literature
- published research reports
Components of research reports
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion (conclusion )
- References
Research Design:
- provides framework to answer research question
- Involves plan for systematic approach to gathering information
- Ensures answers will be as meangingful & Accurate as Possible
- Ensures rigor/validity
Quantitative Research Designs Include:
- Non- experimental
* Experimental
Non-Experimental research design:
- Observational
- descriptive
- correlation
- retrospective
- case-control
- Cohort
- Longitudinal
Experimental research designs:
- Quasi-experimental
* Experimental
Qualitative research Designs Include
- Historical
- Ethnography *Grounded Theory
- Phenomenology
- Descriptive Exploratory
Qualitative
- Complete picture of phenomena of interest
- Research procedures intended to yield non-numerical information
- researcher NOT as ‘arms length’ from data collection process
- trustworthiness/rigor have specific meaning
Descriptive exploratory:
- Rich Narrative data
* Generalised approach
Phenomonology
Description of the “lived experience”
Grounded Theory
Systematic set of procedure used to arrive at theory about basic social processes
Ethnology
Descriptions of cultural groups or subgroups
Historical
Systematic compilation of data to describe some past event
Case Study
In-depth study of an individual or small number of individuals but can be any social unit
Action Research
Research strategy in which the researcher and practioners from the setting under study work together in projects aimed at generating new knowledge and simultaneously improving practice
Quantitative Research
- partial picture of phenomena of interest
- Research procedure yield numerical information
- Researcher IS at ‘arms length’ from data collective process
- Validity has specific meaning.
Types of quantitative Research studies
- Observational (descriptive, correlation,Cross-section, Retrospective, Case-control, Cohort, Longitudinal)
- Quasi-experimental
- Experimental
Purpose of Sampling:
- Increase efficiency of study
- Maintain representativeness
- Minimise bias (quantitative )
- Represent the characteristics of interest of target population
Qualitative sampling Goals
Find best sources of data relevant to study aims/objectives *Obtain insight into phenomenon of interest
Sampling goals of quantitative
- Obtain sample respresentative of population of interest
* obtain sample that allows effects of specified variables to be distinguished from other variables
