PHCM 9781- Evidence Informed Decision Making

Task:

Prepare your response to the Board, by first critically appraising each of these two papers. Using your critical appraisal skills, write a word report to the Board advising them that you support (or refute) the introduction of an intervention(s) into your hospital in an effort to improve hand hygiene compliance to ultimately reduce the rate of hospital acquired infections.

To do this you will need to consider the important methodological shortfalls you have identified from your critical appraisal, an understanding and analysis of the results and the significance of their findings.

Carefully explain your reasons, arguing for (or against) the intervention(s) based on the two articles above and applying the different principles of EIDM you have learned during this course

Critically appraise a scientific publication for its strengths and weaknesses and its relevance to the health management research question

• Identify the possible impact of all other factors that are to be taken into consideration when seeking to implement evidence into health management practice

• Understand the meaning of knowledge and evidence and how this relates to the ‘accepted’ knowledge base and to one’s own decision making

• Identify the role of the level of evidence managers required according to the different types of decisions that managers make

• Introduce the approaches to communicating evidence-based medicine/science with your staff and patient populations