Resource

 

 

: Application of the Background and Methodology of the

Research Process to Problems in Health Care Grading Criteria.

 

 

 

Choose

 

 

an article from your annotated bibliography. Obtain faculty

approval for your article to ensure that it is a peer-reviewed

 

research article.

 

 

 

Read

 

 

the following:

 

 

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Background: The background statement answers the following

questions: How do you know a real problem, situation, or

 

opportunity will be studied? Does evidence indicate you have

 

chosen an important problem, situation, or opportunity that

 

deserves more attention? What evidence indicates that the

 

problem, situation, or opportunity relates to an organizational

 

management issue or clinical concern?

 

 

 

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Methodology: This part of a research study provides an overview

of the scope of the study or how large, long, and comprehensive

 

the study was. This is a brief overview explaining

 

the gathering of the qualitative and quantitative data and

 

where the data may be found. Implicit in this overview is the

 

recognition by the researcher that both secondary data—document-

 

based data, organizational material, library books, and

 

journals—and primary data—empirical, qualitative, and quantitative

 

data incorporated by a survey, experiment, and so on

 

in a real-time fashion—was gathered to make the study comprehensive,

 

fully researched, and as rigorous as a project

 

must be within the scientific method of data planning, gathering,

 

and analysis.

 

 

 

Respond

 

 

to the following questions in a 700- to 1,050-word paper:

 

 

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Definition of the problem

 

 

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What is the problem the study was conducted to resolve?

 

 

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Why is the problem important for health care administrators

to study?

 

 

 

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Study purpose: What is the purpose of the study?

 

 

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Research question

 

 

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What is the main research question?

 

 

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If it is not stated, what would you say the research question

is?

 

 

 

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Hypothesis or hypotheses

 

 

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What is the study hypothesis?

 

 

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If it is not stated, what would you say the hypothesis is?

 

 

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It there is more than one study hypothesis, state the hypothesis

or hypotheses.

 

 

 

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Study variables: What are the independent and dependent

study variables?