In which section of a research report would the following sentence most likely appear: "Patients who coughed were significantly more likely to have spontaneous dislodgement of small-bore nasogastric tubes than patients who did not"?
A) Introduction
B) Method section
C) Results section
D) Discussion
C
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The results section presents the findings that were obtained by analyzing the study data. The method section describes the methods used to answer the research questions including the sampling plan. The introduction to a research article acquaints readers with the research problem and its context. The text presents a narrative summary of key findings, often accompanied by more detailed tables. In the discussion, the researcher presents conclusions about the meaning and implications of the findings, i.e., what the results mean, why things turned out the way they did, how the findings fit with other evidence, and how the results can be used in practice.
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