Research Inquiry Development in Healthcare

Running head: RESEARCH INQUIRY DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTHCARE
RESEARCH INQUIRY DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTHCARE
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Background
The research inquiry in health conducted by the social scientists by following
systematic planning with the aid of quantitative and qualitative approaches (Liamputtong,
2011). The quantitative approach is a social phenomenon which quantifies evidence basis on
statistical analysis of the evidence based cases whereas the qualitative approach emphasize on
the understanding of the social phenomena via direct observations along with communicating
with the participants in addition to analysis of available texts which might focus on the
context in a subjective general manner (Taylor, 2017). Although there are stark dissimilarities
between the two methods highlighting the foundations of research inquiry in healthcare, most
of the methods encompass relevant elements from both the approaches (Lapan & DeMarrais,
2014). As for example, the qualitative data analysis involves fairly structured methodology of
decoding raw data into the relevant systematic information along with quantifying the
reliability of the inter coder (Carter & Little, 2017). As a consequence, there are often
complex relationship between the qualitative and the quantitative approaches on which the
research inquiry is based on (Mills et al., 2017).
The social scientists engage a wide range of techniques to evaluate the healthcare
related social phenomena such as statistically analysing survey from census data which is
collected from millions of participants, along with the in depth investigation of an
individual’s single experience; from observing current incidences along with researching
historic ancient documents (Sinclair et al., 2016). These methods which are rooted in the
classical sociology along with statistical data analysis are extensively used in healthcare to
optimise patient care by gathering all possible medical and relevant formation for the
wellbeing of the patient and structuring enhanced treatment plans (Mills et al., 2017).

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Search methods incorporated
Structuring appropriate search terms is crucial for systematic review as it aids in the
extraction of relevant articles. During developing appropriate search terms which would aid
extraction of required scholarly evidences, framework recommended by CRD or the Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination was followed (Zeng et al. 2015). Taking suggestions from
guidelines provided the acronyms, synonyms and alternate words were used. The
bibliography of quite a few articles were checked manually to retrieve the relevant articles
which may have been omitted from databases. The search terms which were utilised for
extraction of the relevant articles included “research inquiry in health”, “current literature
necessity”, “foundation healthcare research”, “foundations of research inquiry”, “research
inquiry benefits”. Various Boolean operators such as ' AND ', ' OR ' were used to broaden or
narrow down outcomes of the search (McGowan et al. 2016).
The exclusion and inclusion criteria to select the appropriate articles for the systemic
review were set to emphasize the limits in order to augment the focus on the topic given
(Stern, Jordan and McArthur 2014).
Table 1: The inclusion criteria along with the exclusion criteria for reviewing literature
The inclusion criteria to select
articles
Exclusion criteria to reject
articles, not pertinent for the
study
Articles written in English were
selected
Articles in other foreign languages were not
included
Articles published post 2010 were
considered for reviewing.
Articles with publication date prior to 2010
were excluded from the study