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Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality Questions 81–85 (page: 18)

Once you have resolved these issues, the data collection should go smoothly. Unfortunately, many quality improvement teams do not spend sufficient time discussing their data collection plans. They want to move immediately to data collection step. This haste usually guarantees that the team will:

Two key data collection skills satisfaction and sampling enhance any data collection effort. These skills are based more on___________ and _____________ then on statistics, yet many healthcare professionals have received limited training in both concepts.

Stratification is the separation and classification of data into reasonably homogenous categories, within the data, that are mutually exclusive and facilitate:

For example, if you are using a survey to gather patient satisfaction feedback by email, you would not send a survey t o ever y patient. You would start by sending surveys t o roughly 50 percent of the patients an see how many are returned. This limited survey allows you to determine the response rate. Assume that 25 percent of these patients return the surveys. The next task is to determine how representative of the total population these respondents are. To test this question, you need to develop a profile of the total population. Typically, this profile is based on standard demographics such as gender, age, type of visit, payer class, and whether the respondent is a new or returning patient. If the distribution of these characteristics in the sample is similar (within 5 percent) to that found in the total population, you can be comfort able t hat your sample is reasonably representative of the population. If the characteristics of the sample and the population show considerable variation, however, you should adjust your sampling plan. This example clarifies that:

All of the following are characteristics of probability sampling EXCEPT: