1. Which of the following is the best definition of research?
a. Critically thinking about problems that occur in health care to determine possible solutions.
b. Information that is based on personal experience or tradition.
c. Planned and systematic activity that leads to new knowledge and/or the discovery of solutions to problems or questions.
d. Trying a variety of approaches to a clinical problem and settling on the approach that is effective more often than not.
c. Planned and systematic activity that leads to new knowledge and/or the discovery of solutions to problems or questions.
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