Are you looking at the Medicare population within a state, or comparing states?

Are you looking at the Medicare population within a state, or comparing states?
Last week, you developed research questions for your Doctoral Study Prospectus. The next step in developing your Prospectus is selecting a suitable data set. To determine an appropriate data set, there are a number of questions that you will need to answer. For example, is your research question of global scale? Or will you focus on a local community? Are you focusing on a single hospital, or a hospital system? Are you looking at the Medicare population within a state, or comparing states? Do you have command of the language used in the data set? Are the data current enough or old enough for your needs? In this weeks Learning Resources, authors Evans, Grella, Murphy, and Hser (2010); Hofferth (2005); and Smith et al. (2011) offer additional considerations, while Yiannakoulias (2011) reminds us of some of the ethical sensitivities that arise with secondary data sources. For this Discussion, you will research secondary data sources, select a secondary quantitative data set from these data sources to answer your research question, and explain the rationale behind your selection. To prepare: Research secondary data sources, and then select a secondary quantitative data set that could be used to help answer the research questions you developed last week. Submit a 2- to 3-paragraph post that includes the following: –The topic you have chosen for your Doctoral Study Prospectus –The research questions you have chosen –The secondary data set you would consider to answer your research questions and the rationale behind selecting it for this topic