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What is the “Global Trigger Tool”?
If we want to be able to make our healthcare system safer, it’s important to be able to identify and measure adverse events – we need to know how much “harm from care” is occurring in our healthcare system and to … Continue reading
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Tagged adverse events, errors, evaluation tools, Global Trigger Tool, methods, trigger tool
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Evaluation Designs When You Have Small Sample Sizes
Evaluation occurs in real-world contexts, which means that we often don’t have as much control as we do in research projects. For example, in research we may be able to randomize participants to receive an intervention or not, whereas randomization … Continue reading
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Tagged DWLD, Dynamic Wait-Listed Design, evaluation, evaluation tools, Interrupted Time-Series Design, ITSD, methods, notes, Regression Point Displacement Design, research, research design, research methods, RPDD, stepped wedge design, SWD, tools
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Webinar Notes: Social Network Analysis
Webinar hosted by Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) social network analysis: allows us to visualize and measure relationships in a network (e.g., how information is passed within the network) can help you identify people who have connections to groups … Continue reading
Webinar Notes: Soft Systems Methodology: The Use of Rich Pictures from Evaluation
As part of EvalYear 2015, the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, is holding a webinar series called: “Practical Applications of Systems to Conduct Evaluation: Cases and Examples“. They have a great list of 30 minute … Continue reading
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Tagged evaluation, methods, notes, rich pictures, soft systems methodology, systems thinking, tools, webinar notes
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The “Iron Law of Purpose”
I was working on a presentation about “validity” for a group that is working on developing a survey and came across the following as I was looking something up in one of my research methods textbooks: Simply stated, the iron law of … Continue reading
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Tagged design, evaluation, first things first, Iron Law of Purpose, methods
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Webinar Notes: Making Data Matter: Measurement Basics for Quality Improvement
The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) is offering three webinars on Measurement for Quality Improvement. These are my notes from the first webinar: Measurement Basics for Quality Improvement (which was held on Oct 22, 2014, but which I realize I haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged CFHI, data analysis, methods, quality improvement, run charts, tools, webinar notes
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Participatory Action Research (PAR) Lecture
I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on Participatory Action Research (PAR), which was being held as a kickoff for a three-day workshop on the same topic 1Wished I could have done the whole workshop, but I just couldn’t afford … Continue reading
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Tagged lecture notes, methods, PAR, Participatory Action Research, research, research methods
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