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How to come up with Research Questions and Quality improvement projects?

How to come up with Research Questions and Quality improvement projects?. Jitender Sareen MD Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Community Health Sciences University of Manitoba. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Canadian Institutes of Health Research Research Manitoba

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How to come up with Research Questions and Quality improvement projects?

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  1. How to come up with Research Questions and Quality improvement projects? Jitender Sareen MD Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Community Health Sciences University of Manitoba

  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Canadian Institutes of Health Research • Research Manitoba • Co-investigators, mentors, students, patients • Family Moving research forward

  3. How to come up with research and QI ideas? • Listen • Observe • Be Curious • Ask questions • Problem Solve • Make Connections

  4. Research vs. QI • Research Project: • Creation of new knowledge. • Quality improvement project • Translate established knowledge into improving care locally.

  5. What types of research and quality improvement questionscan you ask around a case? • 26 year old veteran of Afghanistan, multiple concussions, leaving military, multiple relationships, presenting to clinic with back pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, wanting medical marijuana for treatment.

  6. Read around the case! • What should you read? • Practice guidelines • Systematic reviews and meta analyses • Read once a week the abstract from the highest impact journals in your field. • You will be surprised how relevant the articles are to your clinical cases. • Go to conferences and actually attend the talks not just go to the beach! • TED talks!

  7. When reading • Ask yourself: • What is known about this topic? • What is not known? • Next compare what is recommended as treatments to what is being practiced….

  8. How do you get an idea? • Listen • Observe • Be curious • Ask questions • Problem solve • Make Connections

  9. Keys to success: TED talkRichard St. John – 8 Secrets of Success 1. Ideas 2. Passion 3. Hard work 4. Good – practice, practice, practice 5. Focus on the task 6. Push through self-doubt and shyness 7. Serve- serve others something of value…

  10. 8. *** Persist*** • Persist through CRAP • Criticism • Rejection • Assholes • Pressure

  11. Categories of Questions I • Epidemiology • Seems boring but kind of important • How common is it? • What is the natural history of the condition with and without treatment? • What is the impact on the person, family and system? • How many people get treatment/need treatment?

  12. Categories of Questions II • Differential diagnosis/Diagnostic classification/comorbidity • What are the common comorbid conditions? • How should we classify the disease? • EG. PTSD is NOT an anxiety disorder anymore • EG. Depression with psychosis

  13. Categories of Questions III • What is the cause of the illness? • Although in papers, we are careful about not making causal statement, everyone wants to know why did this person present with these symptoms, at this particular time? • The short answer is we often don’t know. • Important to use Biopsychosociocultural approach to understanding disease

  14. Categories of Questions IV • Prevention studies • Eg. Suicide prevention, ptsd prevention… • Treatment studies • Biological treatments • Psychosocial treatments

  15. Categories of Questions • Range of medical education questions… • W. Fleisher…

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