Assignment problem: I need help with this article research critique
Nurse Burnout, Nurse-Reported Quality of Care, and Patient Outcomes in Thai Hospitals Apiradee Nantsupawat, PhD, RN1, Raymoul Nantsupawat, PhD, RN2, Wipada Kunaviktikul, PhD, RN, FAAN3, Sue Turale, DEd, RN, FACN, FACMHN4, & Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, MPH, RN5
2015. Nantsupawat et al. Nurse Burnout, Nurse-Reported Quality of Care, and Patient Outcomes in Thai Hospitals.pdf
- What is the research question?
- What is the hypothesis?
- What are the issues or variables being studied?
- What are the Independent & Dependent variables identified?
- How is the research problem significant to nursing?
- How will the findings improve practice?
- What is the study design? Describe. Was this appropriate?
- What is the level of evidence in this research?
- Describe model used to evaluate level of research
- Was the sample randomized or not randomized?
- Was the sample selection addressed?
- Was the sample size adequate?
- Was there a power analysis done?
- What evidence was provided that biases were eliminated or minimized?
- What steps were taken to control confounding participant characteristics affecting the equivalence of groups being compared? Were these steps adequate?
- What were the inclusion and exclusion criteria?
- Describe the instruments used.
- Were they reliable/valid? If so, is this addressed?