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nelaaney

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Which of the follow potential studies would fall within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's future research goals? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Performing a synthesis of research evidence regarding skin-to-skin contact of mothers and newborns
  b. Enacting a quantitative research project measuring bacterial count on nurses' uniforms at the beginning and the end of 12-hour work shifts
  c. Performing a qualitative research project to explain sources of student nurses' stress
  d. Enacting a public education Internet commercial encouraging smokers to read the statistics regarding sequelae of cigarette smoking
  e. Trialing clean-and-sober support groups that are based in community shopping centers

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Which is true of quantitative research? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. It addresses human responses by measuring or counting them.
  b. It presents information by clustering it or counting it.
  c. It yields a data set that can be analyzed by statistics.
  d. It operates systematically.
  e. It states or implies a research question.
  f. It operates in a concrete realm.
  g. It can always be generalized.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A, D, E
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality partners with public and private sectors to improve the quality and safety of patient care by promoting the use of the best research evidence available in practice. Its three future goals are focused on the following: Safety and quality: Reduce the risk of harm by promoting delivery of the best possible health care; Effectiveness: Improve healthcare outcomes by encouraging the use of evidence to make informed healthcare decisions; and Efficiency: Transform research into practice to facilitate wider access to effective healthcare services and reduce unnecessary costs.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, B, C, D, E, F
The quantitative approach to scientific inquiry emerged from a branch of philosophy called logical positivism, which operates on strict rules of logic, truth, laws, axioms, and predictions. Quantitative research requires the use of structured interviews, questionnaires, or observations, scales, or physiological measures that generate numerical data. Statistical analyses are conducted to reduce and organize data, describe variables, examine relationships, and determine differences among groups. Control, instruments, and statistical analyses are used to ensure that the research findings accurately reflect reality so that the study findings can be generalized. Generalization involves the application of trends or general tendencies (which are identified by studying a sample) to the population from which the research sample was drawn. Researchers must be cautious in making generalizations, because a sound generalization requires the support of many studies with a variety of samples.





 

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