Journal Critique

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This essay aims to critique a journal article titled: Invasive and surgical procedures in pre-hospital care: what is the need? When critiquing an article it is necessary to explore strengths and limitations of the study (Jirojwong et al., 2014). Both will be presented using Bellini & Rumrill (1999) tool to critique the article.
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American Psychological Association (APA, 2009) suggests that title of an article should typically be 10-12 words and should use descriptive terms and phrases that accurately highlight core content of paper. Donley (2012) suggest that good research question should be clear and focused. Although the article title is within suggested word count (11 words) it is not clear of what exactly is being explored. Title of …show more content…

Most scientific journals require researchers to be in possession of ethical approval (Kallet, 2004). The article has no mention of ethical considerations or ethics committee approval. It is important to relate to content of the article at this point due to use of patient medical data. Article lacks acknowledgement of patient consent for data collected for clinical purposes to be used in research. World Health Organisation (WHO, 2006) stresses that consent in human subject research is paramount. Health Research Authority (2018) states that patient data obtained without consent should be consulted with Confidentiality Advisory …show more content…

Discussion within critiqued article appears somehow confusing. Aveyard (2014) contrasts discussion section between qualitative method, where main findings are discuses straight after results, and quantitative methods, where separate section is used within discussion section to discuss the results. Critiques article papers to ignore both styles, mixing current and previous findings making it difficult to understand how results relate to the research question. One of the strengths of the result section is direct link between current study contracted with previous findings. The authors identify limitation of the study as lack of feedback on patients’ outcome. Although limitation of study should be stated researchers should emphasise broader implications of the study (Schimel, 2012). Failure to clarify implications and failure to acknowledge strengths of the study result in lack of context in line with findings (Aveyard, 2014). Within the article several limitations can be observed not identified by the researchers. For instance, authors point at lack of ‘high-pressure ventilation system’ which could impact the results of the study and issues obtaining evidence from pre-hospital care. Aveyard (2014) also suggest acknowledgment of issues arising during literature review to further clarify limitations of the

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