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Describe How the Effectiveness of Your Organizational Change Will Be Determined Once It Is Implemented
Data analysis will be used to check the effectiveness of the change. In order to guarantee the validity of the utilization management program, accurate and estimated savings on cost computations must be derived from consistent and accurate analysis of data. Achieving such a feat means that a standard must be set up to determine the cost of pharmaceutical provision savings on cost as a result of the implemented program. It should also be determined early whether indirect costs including devices, price changes and general drug prices, inflation, labor cost and volume changes should be factored in the computations. Scientific evidence and conventional standards of practice should inform such determination. The analysis should also consider the pharmaceutical equivalence based on specific class drugs. The common approach for comparing drugs in a specific class would be to make use of the days of therapy. These should include antibiotics where relevant and scheduled drugs that are administered severally every day. Using the cost of therapy per course or considering weeks of therapy may be more appropriate for drugs with long half lives and action spans (ASHP Expert Panel on Medication Cost Management, 2008).
Correction based on equivalent strengths, units of packaging and sizes is an essential consideration in calculations of cost saving nature; especially for parenteral and liquid drugs. The amount of doses in a container of liquid medication or parenteral medication that comes in large volumes varies as influenced by the container size. Staff input can be used to determine the equivalent doses; especially in case there is a divergence between manufacturers and available published literature on doses. After determining the method for analyzing data, a savings matrix for drugs will be created. It then becomes the basis tracking tool that monitors the progress of all initiatives as influenced in shifts in utilization. This is what will lead to determining the effectiveness of the change that has been implemented (ASHP Expert Panel on Medication Cost Management, 2008).
Analyze Possible Outcome Measurement Strategies Related to Organizational Change Processes
Evaluation of outcome measures the results of the program and provides information to determine whether the program has yielded the change that was intended. Primarily, it would focus on determining the effects of each of the program components, specific data derived from...
Each of the interventions targets its unique set of intervening variables or
risk factors. It would be useful to focus on the
success of a model as opposed to individual variables. The primary question should respond to whether the program is producing the intended results. This approach is often helpful to ensure that focus on progress is maintained (Process and Outcomes Evaluation, 2016). The process of collecting data from an entire population presents various challenges. Therefore it would help to make use of readily available data. Search for data sources that review interest behaviors for groups of population and such sources as may capture shifts on such behaviors (Process and Outcomes Evaluation, 2016).
Selection of an evaluation design is an important strategy. Program designs typically involve determining change among individuals both before and after the intervention. It also involves comparing a
treatment group or intervention group with a comparison group. Using an interrupted time series evaluation design is a good example of the process. The design focuses on trends over a time period at both ends of the process, i.e. before and after the intervention. It provides information on the time the trend is interrupted such as where the change observed occurred. This way, it is possible to determine whether the change observed came before or after the intervention. Application of an interrupted time series design with a control group such as a similar group will also be in
place. Changes that occur over time will then be captured in the community that was subjected to the interventions versus the one that was not. Addition of a comparison group will help determine whether there would still be improvement without intervention. The more the groups compare similarly, the more they suggest that your program led to detected changes (Process and Outcomes Evaluation, 2016).
It is also advisable to make use of randomized control designs in which patients are assigned the treatment in focus or an acceptable alternative. Similar pre-treatment and post-treatment assessment is done on members of the two groups. Owing to the fact that the randomization design process makes it likely for any of the clients to be assigned to…
