Randomization

Clinical inquiry helps clinicians to determine the best treatment from the available choices. Evidence-based care is expected in healthcare because it leads to higher quality of care and best patient outcomes. Evidence-based practice encompass the best available evidence, as well as, clinical expertise and patients’ preferences (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). Clinicians must conduct a well-constructed search to appraise the evidence. The search of evidence can be a complicated process due to…

Methods Participants The participants were 29 college students, and there were both traditional and nontraditional students. They were enrolled in an Experimental Psychology course at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The participants completed the experiment as a learning exercise for the course. Materials A SMI iView X RED eye tracker (SensoMotoric Instruments, Berlin, Germany) with a video-based infrared camera was used in the experiment. There were four pictures that were used, a man…

Annual influenza vaccination is recommended in many parts of the world including Canada and USA. However, there is limited understanding on the effect of repeated influenza vaccination. The issue that repeated influenza vaccination could have negative impact on vaccine performance was first noticed in 1970s. In a study on three outbreaks of influenza A in boys at a British boarding school in 1972 (A/England/42/72), in 1974 (A/Port Chalmers), and in 1976 (A/Victoria), Hoskins et al.…

Now, to the con side of the argument. The “welfarist-reformist” idea mentioned above, while supported by groups like the Humane Society, have been denounced by stricter animal rights proponents, such as Tom Regan and Gary Francione, who consider reformist attitudes to justify and and feed animal exploitation. (Franco, 2013) As mentioned, animal ethics and the advocation for their rights was on the rise, and this wave of thinking was so powerful and influential that “humane science” became a…

this study include the following. The study is based on Experimental design. The investigators seek to test the efficiency of nursing interventions. Groove, Burns & Gray (2013) state: The three essential elements of experimental research are (1) randomization; (2) researcher-controlled manipulation of the independent variable; and (3) researcher control of the experimental situation, including a control or comparison group. Groove et al. 10381-10382 (2013). This study incorporates those three…

Women with epilepsy are at an increased risk for poor pregnancy outcomes and must continue taking medication throughout their pregnancies in order to address epileptic seizures. In animals, fetal exposure to antiepileptic drugs can produce behavioral deficits and cognitive deficits, alter neurochemistry, and reduce brain weight. Risks of medication exposure to the fetus must be balanced against potential risks to the mother and the fetus posed by epileptic seizures. Regardless, medication and…

Katheria AC, Fleming SE, Kim JH. A randomized controlled trial of ultrasound-guided peripherally inserted central catheters compared with standard radiograph in neonates. Journal of Perinatology. 2013;33(10):791–794. doi:10.1038/jp.2013.58. What problem(s) did the researchers study and why? The researchers studied if real-time ultrasound (RTUS) guidance could help properly place peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) tips in infants. Researchers also wanted to see if RTUS could help…

placed in the appropriate container. 100 ml of each extract solution was added to the appropriate labeled containers. The containers were randomly placed on racks in rows and the containers were placed evenly apart. The RANDOM.ORG was used for randomization. The experiment was then run for seven days. After seven days each…

The crystal size is also affected by the rate of cooling and larger crystals were shown to be formed when fat was cooled at a slower cooling rate83. However the samples were not subjected to changes in the rate of cooling in this study. At higher temperatures (or lower supercooling conditions) due to decrease in the driving force, less crystals are formed although the crystals are larger in size as compared to those formed at lower temperatures83. At lower temperatures, due to the higher driving…

treatment conditions on factors, including age, severity of symptomology, severity of drugs and alcohol problems, and severity of social problems. Six subjects dropped out from the intention-to-treat analysis after the randomization stage, because they did not agree with the result of randomization. Fifty-eight women with BPD who were aged between 18 and 65 years were randomly given either 12 weeks of DBT (n=27) or TAU…