Your organization hires you to conduct a formative evaluation of ...

[Evvie72]

Your organization hires you to conduct a formative evaluation of a new informatics intervention. Which areas would you focus on in a formative evaluation?
 
  a. Cost, patient safety, and patient outcomes
  b. Intervention fidelity, implementation quality, and types of personnel
  c. Errors, change in provider decision-making, and cost
  d. Unintended outcomes, delays in implementation, and cost

Question 2

___________________ refers to the assignment of individual records or rows in a data set to a specific purpose:
 
  model development (training, incremental testing of models during development) or validation (data held out from the development process for the purpose of unbiased performance estimation).

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Intervention fidelity, implementation quality, and types of personnel are areas that would be focused upon in formative evaluation. Results of the formative evaluation are used as feedback to the program for continuous improvement.

Answer to Question 2

ANS:
Partitioning
Partitioning refers to the assignment of individual records or rows in a data set to a specific purpose: model development (training, incremental testing of models during development) or validation (data held out from the development process for the purpose of unbiased performance estimation).

[Evvie72]

Excellent

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