Science, Policy, and Politics
Research as a Political and Policy Tool
Translating Research into Policy
Politics and EBP and Policy
100
The process of influencing the allocation of scarce resources. A) Science B) Politics C) Policy
What is politics?
100
It is usually thought of as formal "rules," set by Congress, state legislatures, or various agencies at city, county, state, or federal levels. A) Policy B) Research C) Science
What is Policy?
100
The multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing system, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behavior affect access to health care. A) Health Care Access B) Health Services Research C) Public Financing
What is Health Services Research?
100
An approach that “helps people make well informed decisions about policies, programmes, and projects by putting the best available evidence from research at the heart of policy development and implementation. A) Evidence-based policy B) Policies and Procedures C) Evidence
What is Evidence-based policy?
200
Is the study, documentation, and collection of evidence pertaining to observable, naturally occurring objects, processes, and phenomena in ways that can objectively reproduced to verify results. A) Science B) Policy C) Research
What is Science?
200
Venue involves a roundup of all the usual suspects in quantitative methodology, including the randomized controlled trial. A) Research in Policymaking B) Meta-analysis C) Policy
What is Research in Policymaking?
200
A survey that contains 27 questions, 18 of which elicit the perspectives of recently hospitalized patients regarding 8 key areas: communication with physicians, communication with nurses, responsiveness of hospital staff, management of pain, communication about medicines, receipt of discharge information, cleanliness of the hospital environment, and quietness of the hospital environment. A) HCAHPS B) HCUP C) NHANES survey
What is HCAHPS?
200
These people are often directly influenced by practice changes based on evidence. A) CEO B) Health care professionals C) Patients
What is Health Care Professionals?
300
Develops evidence through numerous methods including case studies, randomized controlled trials, surveys, polls, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and data mining of existing data sources. A. Case Studies B. Research. C. Policy
What is research?
300
It is a “study of studies, “ sifting, distilling, and analyzing quantitative data gathered from multiple studies on the same topic. A) Randomized B) Retrospective C) Meta-Analysis
What is Meta-Analysis?
300
This survey has enabled researchers to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the U.S. and observe trends overtime. A) HCUP B) NDNQI C) NHANES
What is NHANES?
300
It was reborn in 1999 with a mandate to focus on “quality improvement and patient safety, and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems.” A) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation B) Canadian Health Services Research Foundation C) Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
What is Agency for Health Care Policy and Research?
400
It informs the practice of the clinical disciplines, drives organizational and administrative practices in the health system, and influences access initiatives, cost-control measures, and quality improvement strategies. A) Scientific Knowledge B) Evidence C) Research
What is Scientific Knowledge?
400
The use of data collected through large health care entities and government agencies, which offers a strong nexus between problems and policy solutions. A) Secondary data B) Data-mining C) Data extraction
What is Data-mining?
400
This proprietary database collects unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from over 1000 hospitals across the nation. A) HCUP B) NDNQI C) HCAHPS
What is NDNQI?
400
This will influence what topics, clienteles, or areas of science or practice are targeted for synthesis or guidelines – often high volume or high-cost services or services where clients are at high risk. A) Evidence B) Political forces C) Science
What is Political Forces?
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