Passage: For-profit hospices do not focus on the best interests of their patients. In one study assessing the impact of ownership status on care provided to patients, researchers found that patients receiving care from for-profit hospices received a narrower range of services than patients from non-profit hospices. The narrower range of services meant that patients with for-profit hospices were not receiving as much counseling services, medications, and personal care.—Carlson, Gallo, and Bradley, “Ownership Status and Patterns of Care in Hospice”
Instruction for this question are:
1. The type of argument is argument from authority because it's based on research analysis done by experts . An argument from authority is where the conclusion follows from the premises based upon an assumed truth or accuracy of the claims of an expert.
2. The argument is not that much convincing because it's not having any information regarding statistics analysis .
3. It should provide the full view of statistical analysis which they done to show the differences in the outcome of patients disease condition taking in for profit and non profit hospices because evidence can't raise any questions or queries so it's always better to show the findings with evidences
4. The questions to be asked to close the gaps are about it's :-
- reliability
- validity
- hypothesis
- statistical analysis
Passage: For-profit hospices do not focus on the best interests of their patients. In one study assessing...
For-profit hospices do not focus on the best interests of their patients. In one study assessing the impact of ownership status on care provided to patients, researchers found that patients receiving care from for-profit hospices received a narrower range of services than patients from non-profit hospices. The narrower range of services meant that patients with for-profit hospices were not receiving as much counseling services, medications, and personal care.—Carlson, Gallo, and Bradley, “Ownership Status and Patterns of Care in Hospice”
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