Behavioral health patient overcrowding in Emergency Departments

In preparation for the final project, you will begin creating the parts that go into writing a research paper. From now through the end of the term, you will submit a component of the paper that will culminate in the final project research paper. Make sure to review the Instructor feedback for each component and integrate that into your submitted final paper.

This week you will identify a topic and formulate a research question. To begin, identify a healthcare challenge or problem. This challenge or problem can be something you have encountered in your professional career, experienced as a healthcare consumer, or a topic of interest. Once the challenge or problem is identified, then you must be specific about the setting where this problem occurs. Is it a primary care issue, an Intensive care unit, lab service, etc.? Choose a potential solution (based on peer-reviewed literature) that may help solve the challenge or problem in the defined healthcare setting and formulate a research question

Here are two topic and research question examples:

Problem/Setting: Behavioral health patient overcrowding in Emergency Departments

Research Question (solution): Does the use of telehealth address behavioral health patient overcrowding in Emergency Departments?

Problem/Setting: High use of ER for non-emergencies by families who are low-income, recent immigrants, or undocumented

Research Question (solution): What can hospitals do to divert these populations from using the ER for non-emergencies?