Decision Making Case Study

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Running head: Decision Making Case Study Decision Case Study HCS 514 John Kirk Decision Making Case Study Decision-making is Choosing from among alternatives to determine the course of action. The necessity to make decisions that involves the use of staff or other resources is a characteristic of management regardless of the organization. The resources and time being committed measure the importance of the decision; some decisions affect only a small segment of an organization while other decisions involve the entire organization (Liebler & McConnell, 2008). According to Rundell (2008) the diffusion of evidence-informed decision making across the health care sector has been slow and the barriers to research evidence by managers include time pressures, perceived threats to autonomy, the preference for informal knowledge based on individual experiences, difficulty accessing the relevant evidence base, reliance on external consultants and others to determine the quality of the information, and lack of resource. This paper will show and describe the best tool to use in the decision for what services to improve or eliminate and how the tool affects accountability, knowledge transfer, and a questioning organization. Sandra Ashburn is the manager of a country clinic in which the budget was cut by 15%. This clinic provides services for Medicaid patients; Sandra needs to identify the clinical services to be eliminated or introduced to address the care of the Medicaid population (Kirk, 2011). Sandra decided to use the tools in the informed decision toolbox developed by Rundell and describe how using the toolbox affects accountability, knowledge transfer, and a questioning organization (Kirk, 2011). Rundell developed the informed decisions toolbox, which facilitates the use of research evidence in decision-making (P 327). Sandra has many unanswered questions
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