Your organization hires you to conduct a formative evaluation of a new informatics intervention. Which areas would you focus on in a formative evaluation?
a. Cost, patient safety, and patient outcomes
b. Intervention fidelity, implementation quality, and types of personnel
c. Errors, change in provider decision-making, and cost
d. Unintended outcomes, delays in implementation, and cost
ANS: B
Intervention fidelity, implementation quality, and types of personnel are areas that would be focused upon in formative evaluation. Results of the formative evaluation are used as feedback to the program for continuous improvement.
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