EDAC QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔what questions are asked for literature review? - ✔✔What has already been done on
the related topics?
How will the current study contribute to the knowledge base?
Is the current study meant to fill gaps or resolve conflicts in existing evidence?
✔✔What are the 3 parts of a literature review? - ✔✔locating information
assessing information,
critical elvatuation
✔✔when should the hypothesis be developed? - ✔✔Before any data is collected.
✔✔Research plan - ✔✔delineates every aspect of a research study in great detail.
Research plans are the primary documents required for approvals by research
committees, funding agencies, or other authorities, such as institutional review boards
(IRB's).
✔✔Research plan includes: - ✔✔a statement of the research topic, purpose and
objectives
background information, including literature review and the significance of the study
hypotheses or research questions
methodology
research design
variables and measurements
data collection procedures including: settings, populations, samples and protection of
human subjects.
, data analysis procedures
logistics, including the roles and responsibility of individual team members, budget, and
timeline
references
✔✔What types of data are collected in EBD? - ✔✔1. Existing metrics: measurements
routinely collected by hospitals or quality control purposes, including healthcare-
associated infection rates, patient and staff satisfaction, patient length of stay etc.
2. New outcome data: measurements not routinely collected by hospitals. Example,
some hospitals may not routinely measure the rate of medical errors.
3. Environmental measurements.
4. Qualitative data.
✔✔What is the first step of data collection? - ✔✔To communicate with hospitals and
determine appropriate time periods for data collections.
✔✔What is the second step of data collection? - ✔✔researchers should check the
availability of equipment for data collection.
✔✔what is involved with Qualitative data analysis? - ✔✔1. Organize and sort the data
using a computer software program.
2. Break the data into smaller pieces of information.
3. Peruse the whole data set to make sense of if.
4. Classify the information pieces into themes and categories. Find the patterns and
meaning of the data.
5. Synthesize themes and categories into a research report and suggest new
hypotheses.
✔✔Research report includes: - ✔✔title page
abstract or summary
introduction
background (including literature review)
methodology and methods (including a detailed description of research procedures)
results
discussion
conclusion (including recommendations for design and suggestions for future research).
✔✔what questions are asked for literature review? - ✔✔What has already been done on
the related topics?
How will the current study contribute to the knowledge base?
Is the current study meant to fill gaps or resolve conflicts in existing evidence?
✔✔What are the 3 parts of a literature review? - ✔✔locating information
assessing information,
critical elvatuation
✔✔when should the hypothesis be developed? - ✔✔Before any data is collected.
✔✔Research plan - ✔✔delineates every aspect of a research study in great detail.
Research plans are the primary documents required for approvals by research
committees, funding agencies, or other authorities, such as institutional review boards
(IRB's).
✔✔Research plan includes: - ✔✔a statement of the research topic, purpose and
objectives
background information, including literature review and the significance of the study
hypotheses or research questions
methodology
research design
variables and measurements
data collection procedures including: settings, populations, samples and protection of
human subjects.
, data analysis procedures
logistics, including the roles and responsibility of individual team members, budget, and
timeline
references
✔✔What types of data are collected in EBD? - ✔✔1. Existing metrics: measurements
routinely collected by hospitals or quality control purposes, including healthcare-
associated infection rates, patient and staff satisfaction, patient length of stay etc.
2. New outcome data: measurements not routinely collected by hospitals. Example,
some hospitals may not routinely measure the rate of medical errors.
3. Environmental measurements.
4. Qualitative data.
✔✔What is the first step of data collection? - ✔✔To communicate with hospitals and
determine appropriate time periods for data collections.
✔✔What is the second step of data collection? - ✔✔researchers should check the
availability of equipment for data collection.
✔✔what is involved with Qualitative data analysis? - ✔✔1. Organize and sort the data
using a computer software program.
2. Break the data into smaller pieces of information.
3. Peruse the whole data set to make sense of if.
4. Classify the information pieces into themes and categories. Find the patterns and
meaning of the data.
5. Synthesize themes and categories into a research report and suggest new
hypotheses.
✔✔Research report includes: - ✔✔title page
abstract or summary
introduction
background (including literature review)
methodology and methods (including a detailed description of research procedures)
results
discussion
conclusion (including recommendations for design and suggestions for future research).
