Directions: You have been provided with excerpts from transcript looking at the experience of being hospitalized. You are to code the transcripts and identify the common themes that emerge. With the...

Directions:
You have been provided with excerpts from transcript looking at the experience of being hospitalized. You are to code the transcripts and identify the common themes that emerge. With the themes identified, you are to write up your qualitative findings remembering to tell the story- describe what the theme is, how it appeared and give illustrations supporting what you are describing.
This assignment will develop your skills in data coding and categorization in order to describe the essence or meaning from qualitative data. You are being given short responses from multiple individuals – the actual data set would be much larger.


This is a qualitative study looking at the phenomenon of the “patient experience” while being hospitalized. The purpose of the study is to gather information as to how patients view the experience- what do they perceive as excellent and what do they perceive as problematic. The overall research question is “What is the experience of quality care for adult patients hospitalized in an acute care facility?
Within each Transcript
1.       Read the transcripts at least once with no coding at all- get familiar with the data.
2.       Complete line by line in-vivo coding of your data
Across Transcripts
3.       Look for similar findings across transcripts…these represent patterns in your data
4.       Collapse common codes together into Categories or themes
5.       Present your Themes making sure that you attach illustrations to theme as well as your own conceptual discussion.
The paper is to be a presentation of the major findings from your analysis. It is to combine your personal analysis (themes/codes) with extracted illustrations to support your analysis.  It should be written making sure you are answering the research question(s).


1. Discuss the similarities and differences between the 4 types of economic evaluations studies (i.e. cost effectiveness, cost utility, cost benefit, and cost minimization).



2. The dataset called “DataSetInstrumentsDemographics_Correct” contains data from the HIV/AIDS Targeted Quality of Life (HAT-QoL) instrument (Bakken et al., 2000) for the variable HATTOT, which is a measure of the quality of life of HIV positive patients with regards to living with AIDS. Based on this data, the mean HATTOT score for the sample was 97.8. The possible range of raw scores for the HATTOT variable is 29 to 145, with higher scores indicating better mastery of the illness and fewer

Based on all this information, calculate the following for each group:
a)    The financial cost of the treatment
b)    The direct cost of the treatment
c)    The societal cost of the treatment
d)    The incremental cost per QALY, based on the financial cost model
e)    The incremental cost per QALY, based on the direct cost model
f)    The incremental cost per QALY, based on the societal cost model


5. What are the benefits and limitations of using one of these incremental cost per QALY results over the others? Be sure to use your results from question 4 in your discussion.



6. Suppose you live in a society where it has been agreed that spending $1000 for each additional QALY gained is well worth the expense, and policy decisions are made on the basis of this cutoff value. Based on the results of question 4, would you implement this new intervention for HIV positive patients living with AIDS? Be sure to explain your reasoning.