ALHE 4060 Research in Allied Health – Journal Article Review

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__Using medications appropriately in older adults _________________________________

Title of Journal

___Amercian Family Physician_______________________________

Volume________66/no. 10___________________ Date __11__/__15__/__2002__

Page Number(s) ___1917___

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

American Family Physician

·          What is your overall evaluation of this article?

_____Poor          ______Fair            _____Good        _______Very Good       __X__Excellent

·          Why did you choose to review this particular article?

This article gives an overview of how to maintain a balance between using too few and too little, and too many and too much prescription medications.

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

Students:               ____Poor       ____Fair       _____Good    

                               _____Very Good      __X__Excellent

Teachers:               ____Poor       ____Fair       _____Good    

                                ____Very Good      __X__Excellent

Patients:                ____Poor       ____Fair       _____Good   

                                __X__Very Good      _____Excellent

·          Comment on the readability of this article. 

Very informative and could help a lot of people understand more about polypharmacy.

·          Course Topics covered:

Adherence and adverse drug events

·          Brief Summary:

The article summarized the signs, symptoms, and prevention for using multiple drug use.

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

Polypharmacy is the use of multiple medications at the same time.  Drug therapy is the maintance and assessment of medications.  Pharmacokinetics describes how the body absorbs, distributes, Metabolism, adn excretion of medications.

·          Detail the strengths/weaknesses of this article.

Strength-very informative, presented well.  Weakness-might be too clinical for the average patient to understand.   

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

 I may recognize and identify these signs in a future patient. 

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

Yes

Your Name: ____________Megan Creson__________________________________

Date: __10__/__24__/_08__