Healthcare Topic

My topic is Healthcare issues of elderly population.

Think of a healthcare topic you are interested in researching and reporting on in your final paper.  This week, submit a 1 paragraph QUESTION of your proposed final paper topic and your rationale for selecting that topic.  The instructor will approve your topic.  For example, perhaps you are interested in proper hand hygiene or hospital acquired infections.  Submit that topic and how it impacts quality healthcare. Note the example paper title for this topic provided below:

Abstract: One paragraph on the second page; tells what the paper is about

Introduction and Review of the Literature:  Provide an overview of the topic by describing the nature of the healthcare topic you selected, your rationale for targeting this issue as needing improvement. Based on your review of current literature and related reference (no literature older than 5 years), provide information and/or data that demonstrates the population that is impacted by this issue and what specific health quality problems this population experiences. (Who, what, when, where and how?)

Significance:  Based on your literature/reference review, describe the current state of the problem identified, the reasons that the topic selected poses a risk to health care quality, what kinds of interventions have been implemented (or maybe something new and innovative that you would implement) to address the quality issue identified (What have other people done to address this issue?) Focus on data analysis that demonstrates the program’s effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health care for the targeted population. You may want to consider how the IHI Improvement Model questions relate to your topic:

• What are the authors trying to accomplish?

How will they know that a change is an improvement?

What changes can they, or have they made and did those changes result in an improvement?