Quantitative Research: Article Summary

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 http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/develop_quantitative.html

• Variables tested
• Research design
• Data Analysis
• Results
• Conclusions

Articles:

1. The Quality of Surgical and Pneumonia Care in Minority-Serving and Racially Integrated Hospitals by Darrell J. Gaskin, Hossein Zare, Adil H. Haider, and Thomas A. LaVeist

2. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012 by Jacques Ferlay, Isabelle Soerjomataram, Rajesh Dikshit, Sultan Eser, Colin Mathers, Marise Rebelo, Donald Maxwell Parkin, David Forman and Freddie Bray.

3. A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control by The SPRINT Research Group.