Discussion:
Review Trends in the Utilization of Medical Imaging From 2003 to 2011: Clinical Encounters Offer a Complementary Patient-Centered Focus by Martey S. Dodoo, PhD, Richard Duszak Jr, MD, Danny R. Hughes, PhD
Review Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals by Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., Catherine M. DesRoches, Dr.Ph., Eric G. Campbell, Ph.D., Karen Donelan, Sc.D., Sowmya R. Rao, Ph.D., Timothy G. Ferris, M.D., M.P.H., Alexandra Shields, Ph.D., Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., and David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P
Review Service Use and Health Status of Persons With Severe Mental Illness in Full-Risk and No-Risk Medicaid Programs by Joseph P. Morrissey, Ph.D. T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H. Alan R. Ellis, M.S.W. Elizabeth Merwin, Ph.D
Quantitative Research: Article Summary
This assignment is aimed at giving you an opportunity to select and summarize the analysis in a real quantitative research study. This should be a 2 - 4 page paper that meets the general writing guidelines which are outlined in the syllabus. Please use the suggested category headings. For example:
Research design; Data Analysis; Results ETC.
This assignment should be carried out as follows:
Step1: Study selection - You have a choice among 5 articles written about research studies. The articles are provided as PDF file attachments in the Assignment 1 folder. Browse through all the 5 articles. Select ONE of them to use for this Assignment.
Step2: Summary: Write a 2 - 4 page summary and analysis of the key aspects of the article you selected. In this summary you should cover the following items from 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 https://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/develop_quantitative.html
• Variables tested
• Research design
• Sampling
• Data Analysis
• Results
• Conclusions
The expectation is that this assignment will give you some ideas of how to construct your own quantitative analysis
Attachment:- NIH Public Access.rar