Data analysis Plans
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The data analysis plan will involve collecting information about patients suffering from MSRA infections. A data analysis plan is a roadmap or a guide towards collecting data necessary to provide evidence for the research. The first step involves determining the research question. In this case, the research questions are, “Among patients with MRSA infections are contact precautions more effective than standard precautions in preventing healthcare-associated infections throughout a patient’s hospital stay?”. From the research proposal, the central area of study addressed by the research involves MSRA infections.
According to, MSRA infection affects patients that are staying in a hospital. Therefore the demographic variables of this proposal shall involve patients across various hospitals suffering from the disease (Morgan, Wenzel & Bearman, 2017). The data plan shall include collecting information and data regarding the contact and standard precautions based on the infection. The information shall be obtained using surveys and interviews across various hospitals. The targeted people for these surveys include MSRA patients, their family members, nurses, and doctors attending to these patients (Immergluck et al., 2019). The data collected shall be sorted, analyzed, and represented using descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, median, and deviation. The demographic analysis seeks to establish the number of affected persons.
The proposal also includes study variables. The data analysis plan for study variables shall use inferential and statistical tests (Morgan et al., 2017). The affected population will be studied, and their various interactions analyzed and represented. This plan shall also review the research papers and studies conducted by other researchers on the subject. Some of the previous cases of the illness shall be analyzed to determine qualitative research (Maragakis, 2019). The qualitative approach of the data involves explaining the variation between contact and standard precautions.
References
Immergluck, L. C., Leong, T., Matthews, K., Malhotra, K., Parker, T. C., Ali, F., … & Rust, G. S. (2019). Geographic surveillance of community-associated MRSA infections in children using electronic health record data. BMC infectious diseases, 19(1), 170.
Maragakis, L. L. (2019). Things we do for no reason: contact precautions for MRSA and VRE. J. Hosp. Med, 14(3), 178-180.
Morgan, D. J., Wenzel, R. P., & Bearman, G. (2017). Contact precautions for endemic MRSA and VRE: time to retire legal mandates. Jama, 318(4), 329-330.
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