Problem
A request for proposal (RFP) was released with the topic: "Prenatal Care Innovation Grant". The target populations live in areas experiencing a shortage of maternity health care professionals. The proposal must demonstrate attention to medical, behavioral, and psychosocial factors.
• Describe the "effective" dimension of the RE-AIM framework as discussed in class.
Use the RE-AIM framework and the "effective" dimension to describe three strategies to enhance effectiveness of the proposed intervention.
• Name and explain three quality indicators for reporting outcomes within this target population.
• Describe two possible health behavior interventions.
• Tests of efficacy or effectiveness can be conducted using prospective study designs with comparison groups. Use the two health behavior interventions from "A" to describe a prospective study with comparison groups.
• Describe the ways an Emergency Medicine research team could use survey data to understand a provider's pain medication prescription patterns.
A request for proposal (RFP) was released with the topic: "Prenatal Care Innovation Grant". The target populations live in areas experiencing a shortage of maternity health care professionals. The proposal must demonstrate attention to medical, behavioral, and psychosocial factors.
• Describe a process that the research team must use to focus their efforts.
• Describe the reach dimension of the RE-AIM framework as discussed in class.
• Use the RE-AIM framework and the "Reach" dimension to describe three strategies to reach this target population.
• Describe the key findings of "The Health Insurance Experiment" as discussed in class.
• Describe cost sharing and the relationship to healthcare spending by consumers of healthcare services.
• Consider the question, why does health care cost so much? Name and explain two health care system related reasons. Name and explain two disease and society related reasons.
• Discuss possible cost effectiveness if patients receive renal dialysis at a freestanding community facility in comparison to hospital based renal dialysis.
• List and explain two indirect costs that could be associated with a patient receiving renal dialysis.
• Compare and contrast the two health economic evaluation tools of "Cost Effectiveness" and "Cost Utility". How are outcomes measured for each type?