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ALHE4060 Research In Allied Health - Journal Article Review Form

This assignment gives your first experience of reading and reacting to journal literature in Allied Health Research. Many students never realize there's a world beyond the textbooks and so it's all new to them. You learn that in your specialty there are things printed every day that are new. You will have to keep up to maintain your professional competency. Journals are a resource that you can use, both here in school and when you get out in a professional situation. The assignment is carefully sequenced with clear due dates and instructions.

I believe that all of you, as future health care professionals, should be aware of how you can keep up on new developments in allied health and the issues that surround them. Therefore, the objectives of this assignment are to familiarize you with the available literature in medicine and allied health.

To meet the objectives of the assignment, you will:

· Read and study, in detail, one current article on a topic covered in class from any of the three journals mentioned above.

· You will submit two assigned journal articles as Discussion Forums, and you may submit 2 or more of your own for credit in ALHE4060. Ask the instructor if you wish to submit more than 2.

Details of What You Need To Do:

1. Go to the library and check out the issues of the journal. You can also use the Internet for a resource.

2. TIP: Most Journals publish a subject index in their December issue. This is extremely useful and convenient when performing searches on subjects.

3. Look through the selected article ass well as the rest of that issue of the journal and several other recent issues to get a clear understanding of:

4. what kinds of information is published,

5. what audience it is intended to serve

6. Whether references for further information are given.

7. Complete the Journal Article Review Form and submit by the due date.

To receive full credit for this assignment, you must answer all questions on the review form and submit it by the due date. Here is the information you should submit to your Research website:

Title of Journal

Article Ethylene Glycol Intoxication: Treatment and Monitoring

Title of Journal

Unavailable

Volume___________Not given___________________ Date ___The date of this article is not specified________ Page Number(s) _______1_______

· What organization is responsible for publishing the journal you chose?

The website organization is Healthopedia.com whom is responsible for various health-related topics.

· What is your overall evaluation of this article?

__X___Poor ______Fair ______Good _______Very Good _____Excellent

· Why did you choose to review this particular article?

I chose to review this article to prove that some articles that students get tend to be unclear, unorganized, undetailed, and unnecessary. This site is a great example of a site that does not specify and define the problem for the student when writing a paper. Some articles are so basic that details are left out, which makes them uneducational, because even I did not learn anything from this article. The article is also mandatory for Research in allied health.

· How would you rate this article as a tool for teaching a student about cardiopulmonary physiology, radiography, or another allied health specialty?

Students: _X___Poor ____Fair _____Good _____Very Good _____Excellent

Teachers: __X__Poor ____Fair _____Good _____Very Good _____Excellent

Patients: __X__Poor ____Fair _____Good _____Very Good _____Excellent

· Comment on the readability of this article.

The readability of this pitiful article is very simple and straightforward. Where there should be paragraphs in detail, there are only a couple if not one sentence. This article could be read and understood by a teenager in high school. The article also reminds me of the horrible Wikipedia that is so dreaded by college professors. The lack of detail, history, and structure is very easily read because there is nothing to read but a few sentences. For the health professional, this article would be immediately discarded into the trash because it is not useful whatsoever.

· Course Topics covered:

The course topics covered in this article are:

Ethylene glycol intoxication

Treatments-fomepizole

Side Effects

Monitoring of a patient after treatment

· Brief Summary:

The article tries to break down the condition of ethylene glycol intoxication and its treatments (fomepizole). It also lists side effects and what health care providers should watch for. Also it mentions how fomepizole is administered intravenously in hopes to reverse the toxic effects to prevent kidney and heart failure. In its very brief “supposed paragraphs,” the article mentions how a patient should be monitored by a physician. The article is so brief that it can be summarized in just a few sentences, and is completely useless to the allied health professional.

· Identify and attempt to explain three (3) terms, procedures or concepts that were unfamiliar to you when reviewing this article.

The article is so lacking in information that there is no detail for a student to rely on. As mentioned previously, the readability of the article is very simple and it avoids hard terms and procedures. For example, the student does not know what ethylene glycol intoxication is doing physiologically to the body.

Also, the reader only knows that this condition can be treated with fomepizole but does not know what exactly it does in the body. Other than these two procedures, the article is so lacking in information and it is very easy to read, it has painted an overall poor analysis of this condition.

· Detail the strengths/weaknesses of this article.

Although the article has many weaknesses and is a poor example, there is one strength that it has. It does try to show the person reading it that ethylene glycol intoxication is a problem that must be studied and dealt with. The article has many weaknesses such as lack of detail, no references, no date written, no volume, no journal, no history of treatment methods, and not anatomical/physiological detail that tries to explain the cause-effect relationship of ethylene glycol intoxication.

· How might this article be useful to you in your further studies and career?

This particular article would be useless in my future studies in respiratory care because even though I will see this particular problem in the emergency room, it does not have any detail to support itself. There are no references to refer to and find more information. I will use a completely different peer-reviewed article that has much detail and the cause and effects of ethylene glycol intoxication.

· Does the article include a list of references/citations that can be used to find more information on the topics they cover?

This article does not have any references/citations to support its argument, and it only has links to other health problems. This is why this article is such a bad example and why students should avoid such an article.

Your Name: ___________Joshua R. Wilmeth___________________________________ Date: __6____/___26___/___2008__