Thinking Ahead—Outcome Measures
Gaining clarity on the data that will need to be collected to evaluate practice change should be done during the initial planning stage of the project, before implementing the intervention. Your practice setting may provide options for collecting data from various sources, such as EHR, admissions and discharges, and morbidity and mortality reports. If not, you will need to determine what data you need, when it should be collected, who will collect it, and how you will collect it. In addition, you will need to determine how it will be analyzed.
To prepare:
Review the Synthesis Table you created in Submissions Area for your project and compare the result with the desired outcome from your PICOT question.
Identify outcome measures that you will monitor as indicators of practice change, deciding how the data will be collected (pre- and posttests of participants, EHR, admission and discharge data, etc.) and analyzed.
For this assignment, you will:
Use the Outcome Table Template to organize your outcomes. Fill out the table to include variables of interest, data needed, frequency of data collection, methods of data collection, who will collect, and a description of the analysis conducted.
List your outcomes in the far left column, filling in the other columns for each outcome.
Include a 1-2-page descriiption of:
Any statistical manipulation that may be necessary to help analyze the outcomes, with a rationale as to why this method is appropriate.
A brief statement about how you will motivate your coworkers or team to collect this data.
You will turn in both the table and the 1-page narrative for this assignment.
Submission Details:
Name your table SU_NSG7020_W8_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your paper to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
