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Critical appraisal is important when evaluating qualitative and quantitative designs. This helps identify quality designs studies. The important characteristics for quantitative designs include studies that analyze the research question effectively and are appropriate to the research. Quantitative research designs are also measurable and uses data that is researched, evaluated, and replicable (Schmidt & Brown, 2019). The studies can also use larger sampling and includes independent and dependent variables (Schmidt & Brown, 2019). Characteristics of qualitative designs include evidence that supports a hypothesis and evaluate several attributes. Sampling tends to be smaller than quantitative, but the scientific process and data collection mimics that of quantitative. The research question is still the focus of the study as well and the qualitative study needs to be appropriate for the research. Audit trails are also characteristics used in qualitative research (Schmidt & Brown, 2019). The attributes that are most important between the two studies differ in sample size, method of research, and data collection. Quantitative research concentrates on measurable, reliable, and valid research while qualitative can be subjective and relies on description or phenomenon (Lee, 1992). An example of this would be studying room temperature levels and patient care. With qualitative research 5 patients could describe rooms as cold or hot and describe a decrease/ increase of mood, when interviewed. With quantitative research we could find that in 100 patients that had hot rooms set to 80 degrees or for cold rooms 60 that there would be an increase percentage of patients calling nurses and decrease in mood. This example needs to take other components into consideration and is exaggerated, but this shows the major differences in characteristics between the two research designs.