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CLINICAL STUDY

Clinical study

Introduction

At one point or another, the challenges faced by the medical community in an attempt to provide quality medical care that is effective in prevention and treatment of disease and health conditions require further research to come up with the matching solutions. Such kinds of studies are conducted by a group of researchers, always composed of experts in their fields and for research of this kind, there is the need for a diverse group of professionals with specialties in both medical and diagnostic expertise, public health improvement and maintenance and even research and data documentation.

Summarizing the study

The goal of summarizing the study is providing a brief glimpse of the content covered within the article and in this case the summary is done as a segmentation of the parts of the research which include the content of the study, the inspiration behind the study as well as the methods that were applied by the select team during the research and finally, results achieved from the information gathered in the process of the research.

Contents of the research and the inspiration behind it

The study focused on asthma as a respiratory infection and the means of its diagnosis from the fact that the signs and symptoms that characterize asthma could be present in any infection of the respiratory duct of an individual. The study, therefore, focused on finding a means of standardizing the methods of diagnosis to ensure a timely diagnosis that would allow for optimum intervention. Through the research, the community involved hoped to reduce the impact of the ailment in the society and therefore improve the general health of the populace .

Methods employed in the research

In a matter of speaking, the methodology for the analysis was not limited to one aspect or type, and therefore there is no surprise when it turns out that the methods used in the study were either qualitative or quantitative. However, that is not to say that there wasn't a more popular method than the other because the qualitative analysis far outweighs its counterpart in the preference of utilization as far as the article in question is concerned.

In the course of the study, the researchers engaged in the application of techniques that would guarantee a most informed representation of facts that was as detailed as it was accurate to ensure that the findings generated were on point. Integration of the essential qualitative ideas assured their goals were achieved since their study entailed direct observation of patient check-ups and diagnostic procedures and conducting interviews with both the patients and their doctors. In this way, it was easier to find out where the challenge emanated from and how it could be addressed at every point of the process. However, that is not to say that qualitative analysis was not influential in the research. Such an assertion would be a lie based on the fact that quantitative analysis formed the most of the secondary information gathering processes used since the points from the doctors on instances, effects of misdiagnosis on the basis of numbers and projections of improvement once a solution is established are all the workings of quantitative analysis (Green, & Thorogood, 2018 ).

Findings

Given the resources and human resources allocated to the research, the results must have been considerable and logical if not useful once applied in the field, and that is the position of the article as well. Apart from obtaining the statistics on the current misdiagnosis trends, the study found out the effects of the problem and the potential solution in fixing the same. The facts of the situation are that appropriate diagnosis would probably simplify or even influence positively the management attempts in 25% of the cases of asthma, an action that would considerably impact their daily lives for the batter more so in the case of adults. In spite of the preceding statement, children are as much under the ax as the adults are since they constitute 8% of the total misdiagnosed population. With the absence of controversy or contest in regards to the statistics presented above, the verdict is that the data in the article are as accurate and detailed as they should be and gives anyone who reads it all the information that regards the topic of concern (Altman, 1990).

From the study conducted, the most significant result achieved about the topic of concern was the inclusion of isolation methods during diagnostic tests for asthma. In addition, the respiratory infections for which asthma could confuse are tested first in cases where medical examinations are viable hence leaving asthma as the only option. Apart from that, care for potential patients could be elongated meaning that rather than letting a patient go immediately after diagnostics, he or she could stay behind for a couple of nights at the hospital under professional observation to ensure that the right call was made .

Applying the findings in nursing

From the description of healing as the care and management of patients before and after treatment on the road to recovery, the serious nature of asthma means that the victim is always under the care and hence constantly under nursing. Since the responsibility of inpatient sections are under the authority of the nurses, they have the power of determination or at least contributing to the process by the extensive experiences with patients thereby reducing the workload of the physicians. In addition to that, the management practices for misdiagnosed patients fall directly under the care of nurses hence the need for their familiarity with the same, leaving the establishment no choice but to integrate the two departments, research and nursing to come up with a realistic faction of operations (Balter, et al., 2009 ).

Ethical considerations

The common denominator in most research actions about ethics is limited to two sectors of the research, obtaining information and releasing it. In most instances, the means of information archiving is not wholly legal since the bureaucratic red tape involved is too much and may cause delays in regards to research deadlines. On releasing information, the credibility of a subject depends on the authority of the source hence information in regards to mode of hospital operations must come from either an employee or patient. Consideration of releasing information labeled alongside the cause if they are not permitted to speak for the institution is a violation of the ethics and puts a target on the back of the individual. In considering morality and ethics, the researchers never mentioned names and had to seek an individual permit from the patients to access their hospital records .

References

Altman, D. G. (1990). Practical statistics for medical research. CRC press.

Balter, M. S., Bell, A. D., Kaplan, A. G., Kim, H., & McIvor, R. A. (2009). Management of asthma in adults. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 181(12), 915-922.

Green, J., & Thorogood, N. (2018). Qualitative methods for health research. Sage.

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Identify the benefits and risks of participation addressed by the authors. Were there benefits or risks the authors do not identify?

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Did it seem that the subjects participated voluntarily in the study?

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