Quantitative Research: Article Summary of medication
safety
This assignment is aimed at an opportunity to select and analyze a
real quantitative research study and explain how it may or may not
be able to help improve an aspect of health care delivery. This will be a 2 – 4
page paper that meets the general writing guidelines below:
All written projects
should conform to standards of formatting and documentation, including proper
citations and references found in an acceptable college-level writing guide
such as MLA, APA. Written projects must:
1. be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font, with margins no wider than one inch
2. have a title page with your name, the course
name, the date, and the instructor’s name.
3. have footnotes or endnotes, with correct
citations
4. have a bibliography of sources used. You may not cite Wikipedia as a research
source.
5. be prepared using Microsoft word.
This assignment should be carried out as follows:
Summary: Write a 2 – 3 page summary and analysis of the key
aspects of the article on medication
safety (article attached). In this summary you
should cover the following items in
the article:
- Describe the research hypothesis in the article
- Describe the type of quantitative researchdesign selected andwhy this design was chosen by the author(s), i.e. Descriptive,
Correlational, Causal-comparative/quasi-experimental research or
Experimental research. The following link provides a quick review of the
differenceshttp://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/develop_quantitative.html - Variables tested
- Research design
- Data Analysis
- Results
- Conclusions
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Grading Rubric for
written Assignment #1
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Critical Thinking |
40% |
Course Content: |
30% |
Assignment |
15% |
Writing Quality: |
15% |