WGU D514 EXAM 2024/2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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The quality improvement team is reviewing quarterly incident reports and evaluating the effect of Six Sigma strategies on the quantity of medication errors over the past two years. The team hypothesizes a continuous reduction in medical errors for each quarter.The sample consists of patient clinica...
WGU D514 EXAM 2024/2025
WGU D514 EXAM 2024/2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |
VERIFIED
The quality improvement team is reviewing quarterly incident
reports and evaluating the effect of Six Sigma strategies on the
quantity of medication errors over the past two years. The team
hypothesizes a continuous reduction in medical errors for each
quarter.The sample consists of patient clinical and demographic
characteristics. Unfortunately, causation cannot be determined
from the data available.Which research method should be used to
test the team's hypothesis?
Time-Series
Cross-Sectional
Pretest-posttest
Randomized Control Trial - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Time-series
A hospital researcher has access to one year of hospital
emergency department claims data. The researcher is
,investigating the association of race on the timeliness of delivery
of care. The sample includes information on patient
demographics, insurance information, and emergency department
factors. Due to patient confidentiality, the sample does not
include patient clinical information and outcomes.Which research
method should be used?
Time-Series
Cross-Sectional
Pretest-posttest
Randomized Control Trial - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Cross
Sectional
A policy analyst is interested in determining if the prospective
payment system (PPS) has improved hospital efficiency over time
during the past ten years. The sample for analysis consists of ten
years of data after the introduction of the PPS and includes
measures of efficiency and other relevant control variables. The
analyst hypothesizes that hospital efficiency should have
increased each year after the PPS was implemented.Which
research method should the analyst use?
Time-Series
Cross-Sectional
Pretest-posttest
Randomized Control Trial - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Time-Series
Which type of data analysis could be used in quantitative
research?
Reporting the gender of participants
Ranking the severity order with 1 as the worst and 4 as the best
Reporting the distribution of results or outcomes
, Using categorical variables with 0=no and 1=yes - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Reporting the distribution of results or outcomes
What is a characteristic of qualitative research methods?
Utilizes large sample sizes
Determines causal relationships
Generalizes results to the population
Introduces subjectivity to data collection - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Introduces subjectivity to data collection
Many physician practices now utilize an electronic health record
(EHR) system that includes a secure messaging feature. Some of
these practices have extended their contact with patients by
conducting virtual visits between people with diabetes and nurses
who are certified diabetes educators. The remote technology
includes the ability to monitor blood glucose data to determine if
these values are within goal range. After six months, the results of
the blood glucose levels for the group participating in the virtual
visits were evaluated.Which research method was used?
Time-series
Clinical trial
Pretest-posttest
Cross-sectional - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Cross-sectional
A researcher wants to determine whether continuity of care is
improved with the use of coordination of care documents among
primary care physicians and specialists. The researcher decides to
review various published studies to assess the clinical
effectiveness of these documents on patient outcomes.Which
research method is being used?
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