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Review Chapter 2 of Evidence-Based Management in Healthcare before responding to the below prompt.

Hospital leadership continues to increase efforts to enhance the application and use of evidence-based decision making. Provide an example of evidence-based decision making based on your work experiences, and discuss the EBM principles you would use improve operations.

Title:          Evidence-Based Management in Healthcare

Author:      Kovner, Fine, & D’Aquila

Publisher: Health Admin. Press

Year/Ed:   2nd Edition, 2016

ISBN-13:   9781567938715

Explanation / Answer

Evidence based decision making: This involves basing the decisions on the scientific data rather than just intuition. There should be a scientific base in decision making.

The experience relates to the use of the information management handheld gadgets in the workplace setting to improve the organizational performance. Some of the management and frontline executives were skeptical of the advantages of the systems and were against the implementations.

In this situation, the top management implemented evidence based decision making. They case studied four top frontline employees and compared there performance using time study and time measurement. The study revealed an improvement of the 30% over a week of use providing them a justification on the use of the new system.           

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