The purpose of Research
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- Created on: 19-01-23 10:53
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- The purpose of research
- Improving outcomes
- Healthcare professionals conduct informal research to understand an individuals health status to be able to provide correct treatment/care
- Larger organisations monitor patterns of diseases to input prevention strategies
- Organisations conduct research on service users to find out if/how services are benefiting them.
- Policy and practice
- Key term :Policy - is rules that are made by an organisation to achieve aims and goals.
- This meant that more ward nurses were on duty, training programmes for all staff and that all patients have named Dr displayed above their bed.
- Extending knowledge
- Technological advances have meant that better quality/new research, which has improved healthcare/treatment.
- E.g., Development of brain scans (MRI) allow us to test the brain
- Identifying Gaps
- As communities change over time, so do the need of the community. E.g., families moving/new jobs created will change the community profile.
- We can also assess changing community needs by:
- Monitoring the level of demand for services
- Analyse data collected by charities on speific diseases
- Asses the impact of new treatment
- Improving outcomes
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