Reading a Research Article: High-dose vitamin D substitution in patients with COVID-19: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center study—VitCov Trial

1.  Find the Research Problem/Hypotheses: Often authors will refer to the purpose of the study.  This is often articulated in the abstract, introduction, or background.

2.  Find the purpose statement?

3.  Find the study design?

4.  Identify the participants. How were these chosen?

5.  Identify the control group.

6.  Identify the intervention?

7.  outcomes (what was measured).

8.  What were the results? 

9.  Where are the hypotheses rejected or accepted?

10. Limitations.

- This analysis will be performed in a research study, you may copy and paste the responses. 

https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-022-06016-2