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CASE STUDY: Research Evidence Versus Big Data

Your hospital's evidence-based practice council has looked at levels of traditional research and ways to incorporate evidence into care, with an emphasis on building evidence into clinical pathways used to guide care and documentation. As the APRN leading the council, you believe that the members now demonstrate a good grasp of different levels of research findings and are making excellent progress with their work to integrate evidence into practice. Your chief nursing officer, however, states that this is not enough; he expects to see the integration of findings from big data at the point of care. Council members have expressed great anxiety relative to the push to use big data findings, protesting that they have limited knowledge about big data, let alone how to make the best use of its related findings.

Case Study Discussion Questions

1. As the APRN leading the council, do you agree with this decision by the chief nursing officer? Defend your position.

2. Write a one-page explanation for the council outlining the differences between data and big data.

3. Compare the use of research outcomes for a specific patient problem and the use of big data in addressing population-based health problems.

4. What resources (e.g., people, technology) would your hospital need in order to use big data appropriately?

5. Describe how population-based data (e.g., pre- and postintervention data) can be used to create community-level health policy.

6. Which implications does the integration of big data findings at your facility and elsewhere have for healthcare policy development at the local, state, and national levels?

Reference

Short, N. M. (2022). Milstead's Health Policy & Politics. Jones & Bartlett Learning.