Grounded Theory Approach In Health Care

A critical review or an different perspective.

The article very well describes a basic approach to a quantitaive methodology integrating a qualitative approach in order to address a sociological issue 1. The use of a grounded theory approach was adept and in details, which in turn led to the generation of theories. The grounded theory method was further elaborated with a pragmatic method of implementation with some detailed methodological know hows! The use of abductive reasoning was well implemented through the course of collection of samples, futher downstreaming it to analysis and then finally leading to a development of a theory. This theory could be practically implemented based on the research findings on the paper. The only problem

The positive outcome of the above conducted study relies on the fact that , if we consider the last 10-15 years information technology has been introduced in every major sector of an organization, right from booking tickets to travel and even performing or obataining social and educational skills relies on computerization. Despite these advances healthcare sectors are lagging behind in accomodating information technology to implicate and deliver to the patient. Electronic patient records can also be directly addresed as electronic health records as these directly deal with the health status of a patient. Use of information technology in healthcare sectors have tremendous ability to transform the paper based sector into a electronic system which would help in implementing and delivering the patient results and information with much better quality with intrinsic care. Benefits of introducing electronic monitoring has been considered based on several parameters such as clinical and social outcomes. These could be further sub devided into enhancing the nature and quality of care and reduction in manual or man made errors. Besides this there could be outcomes related to management of patient finances and other preformances. Electronic patient monitoring systems can be very promising in terms of implementing tools such as clinicians decision support (CDS) 2, and also physicians order entry which could be computerized 3, these are some of the important parameters in the electronic patient data entry which makes it a very powerful tool. These parameters help making critical decisions with regards to patient care. One of the major drawbacks of the review is failure of citing decent sampling examples for instance the CDS system is extremely handy in providing up to date information about a drug and its potential use, refering a