Day: January 11, 2021

Consumers Perspective asks you to go out onto the Internet and find out what consumers want out of their health plans.  Start your research at https://is.gd/sNwtsU and expand your search until you have:
    Three expectations of services provided by a health plan
    Three expectations of services provided by doctors
Share what you find, along with appropriate URLs, and a summary of what consumers want.

Visit RAND (https://is.gd/cnsu9K) and browse their publications regarding the accessibility of health care.  Choose one publication of interest and:
    Create a 100-150 word summary of the publication using the advice at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-englishcomp1v2/?p=55.
    Create an APA formatted reference for the publication.
    Create an annotated reference (or annotated bibliography) for the publication using https://is.gd/3WFcvp as a guide.
The title of the article I have chosen:  A shared definition of high-quality care can help veterans combat invisible wounds
This article can be found at:  https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA337-1.html
Please follow the directions given at the attached website for creating annotated bibliography.

write an annotated bibliography using at least two of the sources you have collected so far. Remember these sources should be primary and peer-reviewed research articles.

Annotate each article individually (your annotation should be substantially different from the author’s abstract). An annotation is approximately 300-500 words. Your annotation should include three distinct sections: summary, analysis, and practical application.

Your annotation should include the following:

    An APA formatted reference citation with a permalink: Along with the APA formatted reference citation (including the DOI number) and the “Permalink” (Document URL) for each article cited. For a brief, 30-second video on how to add the “Permalink” to your assignment, click here. Finally, if you like, you can use Zotero to generate a reference citation for your source.

    Summary: The summary section consists of the following items:
    a.    Practical problem, if any (What did the author identify as the problem of practice, and why is it a problem? Note: not all articles will have a practical problem listed. Also, conceptual/practical problems may not be listed in theoretical articles or literature reviews)

    b.    Conceptual problem (usually something not known)

    c.    Purpose of study

    d.    Theoretical framework, if any

    e.    Methods (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods; type of data collected, data collection approach, description of the sample, justification for method used)

    f.      Key findings (Results section)

    g.    Implications and recommendations (usually in Discussion section)

    h.    Limitations of study, according to the author(s)

    i.      Recommendations for further research, according to authors

    Analysis: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the study. Consider sample size and contribution to the current understanding of the topic. Use concepts from Galvan & Galvan Ch. 6 and 7 (Analyzing Qualitative and Quantitative Research).

    Application: Discuss how the article relates to the topic of your paper. How has it contributed to your understanding of the topic?

    For an example of this assignment, see this sample student paper with a single annotation (Note, yours should include 2, from 2 different articles).

Narrow and refine the topic you chose in Week 1 (Healthcare system paradigm shift; what will it look like in 2025 and where does Robotics fit into?)
To do this, you will identify the conceptual and practical problems regarding your topic and indicate whether your topic is an applied, or real-world problem. This will help you identify the significance (importance) of your topic.
Step 1: From your textbook The Craft of Research, read Chapter 4: From Questions to a Problem
Step 2: Follow the example under 4.2.4 Connecting Research to Practical Consequences to explain your topic while connecting it to a conceptual question, conceptual significance, and practical application.  Just like in the example below, yours should have four sections:
1.    Topic: I am studying how the nineteenth-century versions of the Alamo story differ.
2.    Conceptual Question: because I want to find out how politicians used stories of great events to shape public opinion
3.    Conceptual Significance: in order to help readers understand how politicians use popular culture to advance their political goals,
4.    Potential Practical Application: so that readers might better protect themselves from unscrupulous politicians.

Here is section 4.2.4 of the book
4.2.4 Connecting Research to Practical Consequences

Some inexperienced researchers are uneasy with pure research because the consequences of a conceptual problem merely not knowing something is so abstract.  Since they are not yet part of a community that cares deeply about understanding its part of the of the world, they feel that their findings arent good for much.  So they try to cobble a practical cost onto a conceptual question to make it seem more significant:

1.  Topic:  I am studying differences among nineteenth-century versions of the Alamo story
    2.  Research Question:  because I want to find out how politicians used stories of such events to shape public opinion,
        3.  Potential Practical Significance: in order to protect ourselves
        from unscrupulous politicians.

Most readers would think that the link between steps 2 and 3 is a bit of a stretch.
    To formulate a good applied research project, you have to show that the answer to the
    indirect question in step 2 plausibly help question in step 3. Ask this question:

    (a) If my readers want to achieve the goal of _______{state your objective in step 3},
    (b) would they think that they could do it if they found out_________? {state your
    question from step 2}

Try that test on this applied astronomy problem:

    (a) If my readers want to use data from earthbound telescopes to measure more
    accurately the density of electromagnetic radiation,
    (b) would they think that they could if they knew how much the atmosphere distorts
    measurements?

The answer would seem to be Yes.
    Now try the test on the Alamo problem:

    (a) If my readers want to protect themselves from unscrupulous politicians,
    (b) would they think they could if they knew how nineteenth-century politicians used
      stories about the Alamo to shape public opinion?

The answer would probably be No.  We may see a connection, but its a stretch.
    If you think that the solution to your conceptual problem might apply to a practical
    one, formulate your project as a pure research, than add your application as a fourth
    step:

          1.  Topic:  I am studying how nineteenth-century versions of the Alamo story
                differ
              2.  Conceptual Question:  because I want to find out how politicians used
                    stories of great events to shape public opinion,
                    3.  Conceptual Significance: in order to help reader understand how
                          politicians use popular culture to advance their political goals.

NOTE:  This is how you are to scaffold down my original research question topic  Healthcare system paradigm shift; what will it look like in 2025 and where does Robotics fit into?