Question

1. Answer the following
   • What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?
   • What is a hypothesis?
   • Describe one type of sampling method.
   • Explain the importance of the Institutional Review Board in research that involves human subjects.
2. Research has played an important role in the advancement of medical science, patient treatment, and overall improvement in patient care. For the purpose of this post, choose any research from medical treatments and procedures, finding cures for diseases, use of new technology in healthcare, or new clinical guidelines and protocols. You may need to do some library research to find some details on the selected topic.
   • Briefly describe the research that has affected the selected healthcare area.
   • Provide some details on how it has been affected. For example, has it improved quality of care? Eradicated a disease? Lowered the prevalence or incidence of a disease? Lowered hospitalizations?

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. a. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH : Quantitative research is defined as the systematic investigation of observable methods of statistics, mathematics or techniques. This data obtained is any data in numeric forms like percentages, statistics

b.QUALITATIVE RESEARCH : Qualitative research is defined as a scientific method of observation of things using non numerical data. Its approaches includes concepts of research methods using various tools which are oriented to meanings of investigation other than behavior.

2. HYPOTHESIS : Hypothesis is a explanation of phenomenon, to be scientific in nature hypothesis requires scientific methods where one can test it. It is a well established theory than any other guessing.

3. TYPES OF SAMPLING METHOD : One of the sampling method is RANDOM SAMPLING METHOD

It is a method of putting of all peoples name into one place and placing several names. The population in this method is having an equal oppurtunity of getting each element of study.