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It looks like there's a fair chance I'll be coming back to my home hospital (urban, county, Midwestern, academic) in the middle of my Post-Bac, to combine my new college's fetish for undergrad research and internships with the connections I have made thanks to my job.
I'll most likely just latch on to one of the long-term research studies we're always working on, or possibly there will be something more short-term that coincides with the weeks I'll be back during my J-term. But just in case I'm asked about any areas I'm particularly interested in, I'd like to know about an idea of mine, vis-a-vis re-inventing the wheel.
I've done a quick Google and Medline search, and I can't see that this has been well-covered: I'd like to know more about the attitudes of patients who make use of the ED, particularly those patients who come in with patently non-emergent problems. What are their perceptions and preconceptions about what an ED is, and what it's for?
I found some research about wait times, from the UK. And obviously, this would be more of an opinion survey than hardcore research. But I have a hypothesis that says [SUPER SECRET HYPOTHESIS STUFF DELETED -- THE GUNNERS IS TRICKSY, PRECIOUSS!]. I think there's a sense of [DELETED], and it has fairly specific roots, and I think it would be possible to gague the degree to which people identify and agree with certain carefully-worded statements.
Getting a large number of attitude and opinion surveys could help to demonstrate trends, and compare/contrast results from different geographic areas. Controlling for bias might be a nightmare, there might be unpleasant political implications in the wrong hands, and the whole thing could collapse under its own weight -- but it's also possible some good discussion could come of it.
Question one is, has the subject been studied already?
I'll most likely just latch on to one of the long-term research studies we're always working on, or possibly there will be something more short-term that coincides with the weeks I'll be back during my J-term. But just in case I'm asked about any areas I'm particularly interested in, I'd like to know about an idea of mine, vis-a-vis re-inventing the wheel.
I've done a quick Google and Medline search, and I can't see that this has been well-covered: I'd like to know more about the attitudes of patients who make use of the ED, particularly those patients who come in with patently non-emergent problems. What are their perceptions and preconceptions about what an ED is, and what it's for?
I found some research about wait times, from the UK. And obviously, this would be more of an opinion survey than hardcore research. But I have a hypothesis that says [SUPER SECRET HYPOTHESIS STUFF DELETED -- THE GUNNERS IS TRICKSY, PRECIOUSS!]. I think there's a sense of [DELETED], and it has fairly specific roots, and I think it would be possible to gague the degree to which people identify and agree with certain carefully-worded statements.
Getting a large number of attitude and opinion surveys could help to demonstrate trends, and compare/contrast results from different geographic areas. Controlling for bias might be a nightmare, there might be unpleasant political implications in the wrong hands, and the whole thing could collapse under its own weight -- but it's also possible some good discussion could come of it.
Question one is, has the subject been studied already?
