How reduce hospital utilization for employees with hypertension and/or diabetes by at least ten percent in the next year by implementing our new and improved chronic conditions management program.
For chronic condition management program Using a pre-post study design to demonstrate how hospital utilization and costs have changed from the prior year to the intervention year for your group of employees (employees with hypertension and/or diabetes)
-What do you think of the study design proposed by the health benefits administrator rep? Is this an appropriate design for answering your question (i.e. “How will you prove that this intervention is worth the investment?”)?(one paragraph)
-What study design do you ask the consultants to use? Do you recommend the pre-post design the consultants recommend or a different study design (e.g. case-control, cohort, cross-sectional, randomized clinical trial). As this is managerial epidemiology, our job is to recommend a study design that strikes the best possible balance between sound methodology and practical feasibility. (one paragraph).