Quantitative Design to Evaluate Effectiveness of the Use of Broad-spectrum Antibiotics

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Understanding the proper data collection and analysis tool is essential for any research. This is more specifically true for those which are directed towards prompt application like Evidence-based Interventions. In line with the PICOT question, the author decides to use a quantitative design to collect data and evaluate the effectiveness of the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Since the intervention has the primary goal of determining whether using these antibiotics would reduce the working hours and days due to acute bronchitis, then a quantitative measure would be best because this inherently entails the collection of numerical data. Notably, the author decided to use observation as a data collection tool due to the limited number of participants, which means that a survey would not be necessary. This would allow the author to ascertain any changes between the baseline data and the ...