TY - JOUR
T1 - Data management for intervention effectiveness research
T2 - Comparing deductive and inductive approaches
AU - Monsen, Karen A.
AU - Westra, Bonnie L.
AU - Yu, Fang
AU - Ramadoss, Vijay Kumar
AU - Kerr, Madeleine J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Management approaches are needed to prepare intervention data sets for research. We identified four management approaches and applied them to Omaha System intervention data from 15 home care agencies (621,385 interventions provided to 2,862 patients). Classifying intervention data created differing numbers of distinct groups for deductive approaches labeled as action category (four groups), theoretical (5), and clinical expert consensus (23). One inductive, data-driven approach generated 150 groups of interventions, of which 24 were meaningful and unique. Interventions in deductive groups were mutually exclusive, and approaches mapped readily according to intervention action terms. The novel, overlapping, inductive groups consisted of diverse actions for multiple problems. The four management approaches created meaningful intervention groups to be employed in future outcomes evaluation studies.
AB - Management approaches are needed to prepare intervention data sets for research. We identified four management approaches and applied them to Omaha System intervention data from 15 home care agencies (621,385 interventions provided to 2,862 patients). Classifying intervention data created differing numbers of distinct groups for deductive approaches labeled as action category (four groups), theoretical (5), and clinical expert consensus (23). One inductive, data-driven approach generated 150 groups of interventions, of which 24 were meaningful and unique. Interventions in deductive groups were mutually exclusive, and approaches mapped readily according to intervention action terms. The novel, overlapping, inductive groups consisted of diverse actions for multiple problems. The four management approaches created meaningful intervention groups to be employed in future outcomes evaluation studies.
KW - Computers/technology
KW - Homecare
KW - Nursing care/interventions
KW - Statistical test development/refinement
KW - Systems research/patterns of care
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U2 - 10.1002/nur.20354
DO - 10.1002/nur.20354
M3 - Article
C2 - 19882692
AN - SCOPUS:70450172425
VL - 32
SP - 647
EP - 656
JO - Research in nursing & health
JF - Research in nursing & health
SN - 0160-6891
IS - 6
ER -