Requirements

Draft a proposal for your data review project of Patient Satisfaction. Use the Data Review Project Proposal Template, attached as an attachment.

Integrate faculty feedback on your proposal, prior to sharing it with the prospective client.

Supporting Evidence

Add a minimum of five relevant, authoritative sources, cited within the outline. Limit commercial website references to no more than two entries. Format your citations and references using APA style.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your proposal addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Data Review Project Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

• Choose a framework appropriate for examining the type of data under investigation. Look at the following for examples and explain the basis for your choice.

• For a compliance project, use the regulations.
• For an accrediting assessment, use the standards and site survey criteria.
• For the implementation of a new service line, consider using the balanced scorecard framework.
• Explain how a project addresses and adds value to each of the four areas of an organizational balanced scorecard. (The four areas being, business operations, finance, customer service, and organizational learning and growth.)

• Create a balanced scorecard table similar to the one presented in the Balanced Scorecard Example, linked in the Resources of this unit.
• Consider a strategic, systems perspective as you contemplate value to the organization and how the project aligns with the organizational mission, vision, and strategy.
• Find evidence to support your assertions and conclusions.
• Determine what additional information would strengthen your value proposition.
• Develop proposed structures (for example, pie chart, graph, spreadsheet, process map) for the visual display of summarized raw data.

• Reflect on what type of visual display structure will best fit your selected topic. Although you are just beginning to collect data, you will want to consider how to display it.
• Ensure that your data displays are clear and easily interpreted.
• Ensure that the proposed title includes the focus of the data, units of measurement, the organization’s name, and time frame.
• Combine clear, coherent, and original writing, in APA style, with relevant and credible evidence from the scholarly and professional literature.

• Apply correct APA formatting to your source citations.
• Consider how or why a particular piece of evidence supports your main points, claims, or conclusions.
• Make sure your supporting evidence is clear and explicit.