Which of the Following Statements in the Critique of a Study

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements in the critique of a study would indicate to the reader that the study contains information that could assist in implementing new findings into practice?

• A) "All the references are current and relevant to the topic of interest. The author is to be commended."
• B) "Further study is clearly needed from the lack of agreement among the experts represented in the review of literature."
• C) "The literature presented in this review seems to agree that the suggested intervention leads to better patient compliance."
• D) "This study does an excellent job of reviewing all the literature on use of compression stockings."

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Definitions:

Nominal Variables

Categorical variables that have two or more categories without having a natural order or rank.

College Major

The specialized area of study or field chosen by a college or university student to focus their academic coursework and degrees.

Nominal

A level of measurement that categorizes data but does not rank them.

Dummy Variables

Variables created to include categorical data in regression models by converting categories to a binary form (0 or 1), representing the presence or absence of some categorical effect.