Determining highly effective interventions to prevent adult inpatient fall injuries by specialty area:

A mult hospital nurse survey. Authors: Huey-Ming Tzeng and Chang-Yi Yin Format of the proposal: Introduction Provide; Background and significance of the problems Statement of the problem Statements of the purpose Brief summary of relevant literature Framework (1-3 paragraphs — use tables if indicated) Formulation of objectives, questions, or hypotheses Definitions (conceptual and operational) of study variables Definitions of relevant terms Methods and Procedures (5-8 paragraphs) Description of the research design — include a model of the design, the strengths and weaknesses of the design validity Identification of the populations and sample — include sample size, use of power analysis, sample criteria and sampling methods including strengths and weaknesses Selection of a setting — strengths and weaknesses of the setting Presentation of ethical considerations — protection of subjects' rights and university and agency IRB plan and process Description of the intervention is appropriate — including the protocol for implementing the intervention in detail, including who will implement the intervention, and describe how intervention fidelity is ensured. Not all studies will have interventions. Descriptive studies will not have interventions E Selection of measurement methods — include reliability, validity, scoring, and level of measurement of the instruments as well as plans for examining reliability and validity of the instruments in the present study; precision and accuracy of physiological measures Plan for data collection — including the process, training of data collectors if appropriate, schedule, data-collection forms and management of data Plan for data analysis — demographic data, analysis for research objectives, questions or hypothesis, level of significance and, if appropriate, other analysis techniques Identification of limitations Discuss communication of findings                                                      

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