Analyze a real quantitative research study

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Assignment 1: Quantitative Research: Article Summary

Instructions: This assignment is aimed at giving students 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 3 - 5 page paper that meets the general writing guidelines which are outlined in the syllabus.

This assignment should be carried out as follows:

Step 1: Study selection - Select the article that most interests you.

1. A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control (Article1)

2. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012 (Article2)

3. The Quality of Surgical and Pneumonia Care in Minority-Serving and Racially Integrated Hospitals (Article3)

Step 2: Summary: Write a 3 - 5 page summary and analysis of the key aspects of the article you selected. In this summary you should cover the following items in the article:

• Describe the research hypothesis in the article

• Describe the type of quantitative research design selected and why 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 differences.

• Variables tested

• Research design

• Data Analysis

• Results

• Conclusions

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