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Introduction

The article that has been selected to discuss research steps, methods, and how those steps were used to get the findings of the study. The article is a research study that was done to find a way to keep congestive heart failure patients from having to readmitted 30 days after discharge. The patients that were are apart of the study were considered to be high risk and were given more information and close monitoring compared to lower risk patients.

Research Steps

The research steps taken were to identify what the problem was the researchers wanted to conduct their study on and design their research project. The researchers then had to start the study and collect all data. The data was interpreted and used to conclude their study. They then shared the research data and their findings with others so that everyone would have the same information; also helps if someone is looking at conducting a similar study.

The Problem

Patients being readmitted to the hospital after discharge for congestive heart failure. This is a problem because patients are having complications that could be caught with more follow-up care than they normally would receive. The research is trying to fix the problem of high-risk patients having complications that land them back in the hospital that could have been resolved before the patient having to be readministered. This problem is important for health care administrators to study because they need to know why patients are being readministered and if there are ways to better the hospital care to prevent it. Administrators should be observant of what is happening in the hospital and finding ways to improve upon the care that patients are receiving to better their experiences.

The Purpose

The purpose of this study is to find ways to better reach, educate, and classify patients who have been discharged from the hospital with congestive heart failure. The study wants to see if doing these things more often throughout the 30 days after discharge leads to less readmissions to the hospital. The author wants to see if using technology to reach the patients is beneficial for this so that when limited resources are available in doctors’ offices patients are still getting the education and follow-up care they need.

The Variables

The study was to see if more follow-up care and close monitoring would lessen the number of patients readmitted. The independent variable would be the follow-up care and close monitoring. The patients in low to high-risk categories and were or were not readmitted would be the dependent variables.

The Question/Hypothesis

The hypothesis presented in the article was: “Congestive heart failure remains a major reason for certain high risk patients. Some of these readmissions can be lowered with aggressive follow up and close monitoring of certain high risk patients” (Vadlamani et al., 2016). The answer to the hypothesis was that with the use of technology readmissions within 30 days of discharge was reduced. The hypothesis is accepted because the answer confirms what the researchers thought would happen.

Research Methodology Design and Analyses

Methodology

Population

Sampling Method

Length of the Study

Data Collection

Statistical Analysis

Findings

Findings of this study

Did the Author address the Question/Hypothesis

Conclusion

Recommendations

Relevancy

Health Care Usage

References

Vadlamani, L., Anderson, K., & Kumar, S. (2016, April). Using technology to reduce readmission rates for congestive heart failure in high risk patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 67(13), 1410. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(16)31411-5

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