No research can be considered as completed before its findings have been shared with the professionals who can be interested in the results of the study. It is important to consider the target audience and the prioritized communication outlet before disseminating the evidence.
The issues of the effectiveness of CPUs as compared to the traditional approach to monitoring of patient population with undifferentiated acute chest pain would be especially interesting for the American Heart Association and Emergency Department Management Association.
It is important to inform the administration of the hospital setting on the results of the research, so that implementing the evidence-based approach, they could impose appropriate measures for reorganization of the clinic. The patients should be excluded from the list of the target audience because of the considerations of the professional ethics. The potential clients should not be initiated into the findings of the report because it touches upon the issues of cutting costs on the health care services and patients can misinterpret this information.
Cardiology Clinics is the professional publication that should be included into the disseminating plan because it touches upon various approaches to diagnosing and treating the cardiac diseases and the context of the previous publications would prepare the readers to the issue of CPUs’ effectiveness. Blomkalns & Gibler (2005) noted that “as more and more reports of successful CPUs are published and evidence expands for cost-effectiveness, likely it will be an expectation, rather than an exception, that EDs and hospitals have such units” (p. 419).
Reference List
Blomkalns, A. & Gibler, W. (2005). Chest pain unit concept: Rationale and diagnostic strategies. Cardiology Clinics, 23: 411-421. Web.