A healthcare organization implements a campaign to improve patient satisfaction during recent stays.

Data-driven decision making requires comparing outcomes before and after an intervention to assess effectiveness. In this scenario, the mean patient satisfaction scoredeclined from 4.20 to 1.5following implementation of the campaign, indicating a substantial decrease in satisfaction.

Despite the reduced standard deviation, the large drop in the mean suggests the campaign did not achieve its intended goal and may have negatively affected patient experience. Continuing or modifying the campaign is not justified without evidence of initial improvement or external factors explaining the decline.

Management decisions must be grounded in outcome data rather than assumptions or unrelated metrics such as patient volume. Ethical and effective use of statistics requires discontinuing interventions that demonstrably worsen outcomes.

Therefore, the correct action is todiscontinue the campaign, making optionAthe correct answer.