A nurse is grading the strength of evidence when critiquing a research study. Which of the fol-lowing domains will the nurse need to consider?
a. Randomness, sample size, and blinding
b. Selection, variables, and description
c. Nursing, medicine, and physiology
d. Quality, quantity, and consistency
ANS: D
Quality, quantity, and consistency are the three domains for evaluating systems. The others are not criteria used to grade the strength of evidence.
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