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Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 10   EBP 1390 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Is It QI or Is It Research?

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The idea

Whether a project is quality improvement or research determines whether it requires institutional review board approval, and the answer turns on what the project intends to produce.

In practice

A project team establishing its category before collecting anything.

Where people slip

Decide this at the start. A project that turns out to have been research after the data are collected has a problem no analysis fixes.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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