Assignment: Care Program Overview
Assignment: Care Program Overview
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Identify one health care program area of activity in a population-based health organization you want to evaluate. You may use the organization where you work or the Moreno Medical Center virtual organization.
You will be creating a proposal for a small-scale research project to evaluate your selected program.
Write a 350-word overview of your topic selection for the Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal, due in Week 8.
Use the following information below as an outline for your overview. An example of how this outline should look can be viewed within the Moreno Medical Center virtual organization for any of the programs listed within the Director of Research, located under the Administration tab.
- Program title
- Program goal
- Program purpose
- Program scope
- Program audience
- Program background
- Rationale for developing this evaluation plan
- Existing program evaluation program model, if available
- References
Format the overview consistent with APA guidelines or the examples found in Moreno Medical Center.
Include a cover page indicating the name of the program.
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DHA 732 WEEK 4 Draft 1 – Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal
Write a draft of the first three sections of the program evaluation proposal to include the following:
- Introduction: This is not a summary of the proposal; it is a brief statement of the plan’s purpose. Start with a clear purpose statement. Add a description of each major section, as presented in the completed plan. This section must be no more than one-half page in length. Review Ch. 1 and 2 of the Posavac (2011) text for further information.
- Program Background: Insert updated content with revisions based on facilitator feedback from the Week 2 topic overview assignment. This section must be no more than one-half page in length. Review Ch. 2 & 3 of the Posavac (2011) text for further information.
- Literature Review: Describe findings to date from a review and analysis of literature. This section must be one to two pages in length.
Format your draft according to the following:
- Title page, including title of the program, author’s name, and institution name
- Table of contents, listing headings that are also found in the narrative, and corresponding page numbers
- Table of exhibits listing type, number, title, and corresponding page numbers; this includes Table of Tables and Table of Figures
- References–there should be one References section for the full proposal
- Appendixes (if applicable)–there should be one Appendix section for all appendices
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DHA 732 WEEK 8 Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal
Complete the final two sections of the proposal:
- Ethical, Equity, and Leadership Considerations
- Implementing and Monitoring Strategies
Finalize the full proposal for a small-scale research project to evaluate your program.
- Your final proposal must be between 8,750 and 10,500 words.
- Title page, references page, table of contents, figures, and appendices do not count toward the minimum required length.
- All sources must be carefully referenced. Your proposal must include at least 25 references with at least 15 peer-reviewed sources.
Outline your Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal as follows:
- Title page, including title of study, author’s name, and institution name
- Table of contents, listing headings that are in the narrative, and corresponding page numbers
- Table of exhibits listing type, number, title, and corresponding page numbers
- Introduction
- Program background
- Literature review
- Theoretical Framework
- Program evaluation goals and specific objectives
- Evaluation model design
- Evaluation methods
- Data analysis and reporting
- Economic evaluation
- Ethical, equity, and leadership considerations
- Implementing and monitoring strategies
- References
Format the paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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DHA 732 WEEK 7 Draft 3 – Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal
Write a draft of the next two sections of the program evaluation proposal to include the following:
- Data Analysis and Reporting:
- What software programs, report generation tools, and analytics will be used for compiling, data mining, storing, and retrieving current and historical data for analysis and reporting?
- What are the overall capabilities and limitations of the software?
- Is there any known data needed for program evaluation that is not currently accessible through the health care organization’s interfaced information system?
- Is there a cost-benefit consideration involving manual collection for analysis and custom reports for reporting warranting economic evaluation or cost analysis?
- Economic Evaluation:
- Problem or purpose warranting an economic evaluation
- The economic- or program-related theory that supports an economic evaluation
- Economic or cost analysis questions to be answered related to the purpose
- Stipulate if comparing to another program or interventions
- Justifying the need for a cost description or analysis
- Decision rules
- Each type of economic evaluation and cost analysis
- Accounting perspective and corresponding costs & benefits to be evaluated
- Data and methods used
- Resource limitations
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DHA 732 WEEK 6 Draft 2 – Health Care Program Evaluation Proposal
Write a draft of the next three sections of the program evaluation proposal to include the following:
- Program Evaluation Goals and Objectives:
- Theoretical Framework
- What is the general goal for designing or selecting an evaluation plan based on the theoretical framework and program setting?
- What is the specific program and evaluation theory behind similar programs?
- What are the common goals and objectives of similar programs?
- Is the organization’s program in alignment with similar programs in terms of purpose, stakeholders, resources, goals, and objectives?
- What specific questions must the evaluation model answer to evaluate the program for internal and external stakeholders?
- What specific processes, output, outcomes, or implementation goals must be evaluated?
- What are the objectives of the program evaluation in terms of providing data, information, and resources to internal stakeholders, such as performance dashboards to monitor processes, quality, outputs, resources, costs, revenue, and other implementation and outcome measurements?
- Theoretical Framework
- Evaluation Model Design:
- Provide an overall qualitative or quantitative approach to the evaluation.
- Describe from where, whom, and when data will be collected.
- Describe the participants and sampling, if appropriate to the program being evaluated.
- If evaluating a program involving input or by patients, clients, or consumers, how will participants be recruited or selected, such as for a patient satisfaction survey?
- Sampling methods and sample size: Will the program evaluation model evaluate all participants, processes, outputs, or outcomes, or use a research-based sampling method?
- Evaluation Methods:
- Procedures for data collection: Describe the procedures used, such as retrospective historical performance, program utilization, financial and outcome data, electronic medical records, laboratory or quality software application data capture and reporting, focus group discussion, or questionnaire surveys.
- Will the evaluation include capturing quantitative and qualitative data and information?
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DHA 732 WEEK 5 Case Study Critical Review
Resources: Literature Review section of Draft 1 of your proposal, Ch. 6 of Issel (2014), and Ch. 9 (pages 111-116) of Longest (2015)
Conduct an in-depth critical review of health care programs similar to those from your Literature Review section of your proposal.
Identify ideas relating to the program topic that present theories on the effectiveness of program intervention and evaluation strategies.
Write a critical review and analysis of two or more peer-reviewed articles. You may also use examples of similar programs discussed in scholarly readings.
- The review should be no longer than 1,225 words.
- Apply and integrate concepts from the course readings in your analysis.
Include the following in your critical review. Use scholarly resources to support your viewpoint for each:
- A comparison of the programs
- A description of why some program intervention and evaluation strategies are more effective than others.
- The stated or perceived program evaluation theories behind each of the programs
- An analysis of whether your program is in alignment with similar programs in terms of program purpose, program theory, interventions, stakeholders, resources, goals, and objectives
- A summary of the learning garnered in this assignment that can be applied to the development of your own program evaluation plan
- Conclusions addressing what you will be adding and/or revising to the Literature Review section of your proposal
- Potential goals and objectives to include in your proposal
Format your critical review consistent with APA guidelines.
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