Reference no: EM132942183
Look at "Changes in Medical Errors after Implementation of a Handoff Program and answer the questions below. Some answers you will find in the abstract, but others may require a bit of searching through the article. Use your own words to answer. Do not copy/paste directly from the article.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1405556
-What study design was used? Explain.
-Was it cross-sectional or longitudinal?
-Was it qualitative or quantitative?
-What was the hypothesis?
-What were the dependent (outcome) variables?
-In the "Study Outcomes" section, a measurement is described as follows: "Two physician investigators classified each suspected incident as an adverse event, a near miss or error with little potential for harm, or an exclusion." Is this level of measurement nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio?
-Was any relationship found between the intervention and outcome variables? Explain why this relationship would or would not be considered causal.
-In the fourth from the last paragraph (starting with "although the implementation...") a study limitation is discussed. What type of validity is threatened here-- Internal or External? Why?
-In the next paragraph (starting with "our intervention...") another study limitation is discussed. What type of validity is threatened here-- Internal or External? Why?