Hospitals are required to comply with various laws and bylaws. Investigator want to study whether a particular hospital is complying with green building laws, he will check the dimensions of the patient and other areas in the hospital and compare them with green building standards. What would be this study design? Will it be a case study ? or Observational descriptive study? or any other type of study design? Please help
Simplify the question ?either study design to conduct or standard to evaluate??
There is no hypothesis here. It will be a simple descriptive epidemiological study. Data collection will involve obtaining information on the availability as against the pre-decided norms. Descriptive statistics will be used to describe the proportional achievement (as %) against the pre-decided norms by the regulatory authority. Don't calculate the 95% CI since you will be studying the "total population" and not a sample (here the concerned hospital will comprise the "total population" and the study will be like a total populatiomn census).
Good evening sir, thank you for your answer. The discussion came while writing the study design for MD thesis. Where the contention of one of the member was that since the study does not involve humans the study design should be case study rather than descriptive Epidemiology ( which takes only the literal meaning). Thanks for clarification sir. Regards
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