Evidence Informed Decision Making Short Answer

Evidence Informed Decision Making
Short Answer Assignment

Scenario: 

You are a quality improvement manager at a regional health organization that provides acute and community healthcare services for adults. Your organization is made up of a 70-bed acute hospital that provides adult medical, obstetric and surgical services, and three ambulatory care centres that offers community and outreach nursing. 

There has been a recent spike in the number of gram-negative blood stream infections (BSI) in your hospital. A large proportion of these infections have been caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli), a common gram-negative bacterium. The NSW Ministry of Health has contacted your infectious diseases department to further investigate and respond to the situation. 

You have been asked by the Medical Director to search the literature and appraise the evidence surrounding interventions that have been shown to reduce the number of E.Coli gram-negative BSIs in adults. 

You are aware that the National Health Service (NHS) in England has recently embarked on a nation-wide strategy to reduce gram-negative BSIs. You do a quick search on the internet, and come across the following resource recently produced by NHS Improvement: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/preventing-gram-negative-bloodstream-infections/ 

Using this link to NHS improvement (and their recommended resources) please answer

Questions:

Q1. Please frame a research question in PICO(T) format and justify in a few short sentences why you have chosen each element of PICO(T).
word count: 150 words
P
I
C
O
(T) – optional
Systematically frames a PICO(T) research question with brief explanations for all elements.
Addresses key objective from the question stem provided.