Patient attitudes towards medical errors”

Assignment #4: Qualitative Analysis

In this assignment students, will go through the steps to set up a qualitative research study.

Step #1: Topic selection: Students select an appropriate topic associated with issues in health care management.

Topic Approved: “Patient attitudes towards medical errors”

Step #2: Using the topic approved by your instructor, identify three articles related to your topic. Using the steps to conduct qualitative research analysis, outlined in weeks 5 and 6, provide the following for each article:

Step #3: Draw the Hypothesis and Questions

Step #4: List the codes you would use for this study.

Step #5: List five themes for the study

Step #6: Theory – Determine any explanations or predictions observed, associated with topic of interest

Instructions

v Lists and submit the articles name. (formatted in APA style)

v Description of each article (2-3 pages)

v Codes (attach codebook of at least 10 defined codes)

v Themes (5 themes)

v Conclusion. Discuss any similarities or differences in conclusions (3 paragraphs)

v Contribution to Health Services Research (3 paragraphs)

v Writes clearly, concisely, and with few errors. APA format is followed. Citations are used. Clearly presents material graphically. Easy to understand.

Rubric Name: Assignment #4 Rubric

Criteria Level 1 –

Criterion 1- Title of articles (APA style)

Criterion 2 -Description of each article

Criterion 3- Hypothesis and Questions

Criterion 4 -Codes (attach codebook of at least 10 defined codes)

Criterion 6- Themes (5 themes)

Criterion 7 -Theory

Criterion 8- Contribution to Health Services Research

Criterion 9- Writes clearly, concisely, and with few errors. APA format is followed. Citations are used. Clearly presents material graphically. Easy to understand.