• Resource: Application of the Background andMethodology of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care GradingCriteria.
• Choose an article from your annotated bibliography.Obtain faculty approval for your article to ensure that it is a peer-reviewedresearch article.
• Read the following:
o Background: The background statement answers the followingquestions: How do you know a real problem, situation, or opportunity will bestudied? Does evidence indicate you have chosen an important problem,situation, or opportunity that deserves more attention? What evidence indicatesthat the problem, situation, or opportunity relates to an organizationalmanagement issue or clinical concern?
o Methodology: This part of a research study provides an overview ofthe scope of the study or how large, long, and comprehensive the study was.This is a brief overview explaining the gathering of the qualitative andquantitative data and where the data may be found. Implicit in this overview isthe recognition by the researcher that both secondary data—document-based data,organizational material, library books, and journals—and primarydata—empirical, qualitative, and quantitative data incorporated by a survey,experiment, and so on in a real-time fashion—was gathered to make the studycomprehensive, fully researched, and as rigorous as a project must be withinthe scientific method of data planning, gathering, and analysis.
• Respond to the following questions in a 700- to1,050-word paper:
o Definition of the problem
• What is the problem the study was conducted toresolve?
• Why is the problem important for health careadministrators to study?
o Study purpose: What is the purpose of the study?
o Research question
• What is the main research question?
• If it is not stated, what would you say theresearch question is?
o Hypothesis or hypotheses
• What is the study hypothesis?
• If it is not stated, what would you say thehypothesis is?
• It there is more than one study hypothesis, statethe hypothesis or hypotheses.
o Study variables: What are the independent and dependent studyvariables?
o Conceptual model or theoretical framework: In what way was aconceptual model or theoretical framework used to guide this study?
o Review of related literature: In what ways does the literaturereview support the need for this study?
o Study design
• What study design is used?
• How many subjects were studied?
• Where are the subjects found?
• What organization was studied?
• How long did the study take?
Formatyour paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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