Question

Hospital B is interested in determining the percentage of medication orders that take greater than one hour to be delivered to nurses' station. What are some of the factors that may influence this process and should be considered when collecting the data. Give 5 different possibilities to stratify the data for better analysis.

Answer 1

Ans: There are two factors whichindluence the process while collecting the data are, primary and secondary data:

Primary data: It always includes relevant situation which is currently happening and verifying all the facts, it follows a specific set of process and questionnaire, primary data always helps in framing the facts in a disciplainary manner.

Secondary data: it always includes the information which has been already collected by someone and you are using it as a refrence to take further steps in certain situations.

The following are the different possibilities to stratify the data for better analysis:

1. Adequate knowledge about clinical characteristics and previous treatment of individual patients.

2. Through error-reporting systems we can prevent scribing faults and prescription errors.

3. In prescribing process, monitoring of drug action is mandatory and need to have a track check of doses or treatments.

4. Need to have a knowledge in pharmacotherapy to Transcrib previous medications and collecting information of medication history about the patient's clinical condition.

5. Maintain a Specific Questionnaire to avoid conflicts