A nurse researcher has completed a study involving the use of intravenous analgesics for postsurgical discomfort. In which section of the research report would a description of the 16 clients who participated in the study appear?
a. Introduction
b. Methods
c. Results
d. Clinical Implications
B
A description of the clients used is found in the Methods section of the research study.
The Introduction section presents the purpose of the study, a summary of the literature, and the hypotheses tested or questions posed.
The Results section contains a description of the results obtained in the study, including the ap-propriate statistical tests used to analyze the data.
The Clinical Implications section will explain if the findings from the study have clinical impli-cations and how to apply these findings in a practice setting.
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