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Check out Hospital Compare ... https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/about/what-is-HOS.html Be sure to read ABOUT THE DATA sections. Professionals who work in hospitals: health information management + clinical professionals + administration all collect data (primary) and report that data to CMS. Then, other professionals can use these results, shown on this website, for benchmarking, while patients can use it to determine which provider to use.

In your own words, explain how you might perform Primary Research to collect data...in your future job position. In your own words, explain how you might use Secondary Research in your future job position to benchmark some of these outcomes.

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My future job position would be in the field of clinical psychology. The natural form of data collection would be both Primary as well as secondary. How I would circumvent around primary data would be by, of course, gaining and cross checking my references by and from the orginal sources, which is rudimentary in all research. That isn't to say that secondary data is futile, for it is not. But primary data holds precise credibility.

And, as far as secondary data is concerned, it is dependant on the credibility of the source from where it is being outsourced and held as benchmark

During my future job position, I'd cross check all my secondary data references as it is an imperative to have noteworthy, credible and truthworthy sources. I would be able to establish this by crossreferencing and most importantly correlating the data found (secondary data) with my primary sources; this is espcially helpful when the research and data collection is being conducted in the same sphere of knowledge.

Congruency between the datas (primary and secondary), should help accumulate successfull data. Hence, this would aid in establishing secondary research as the benchmark for compraison.

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