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Norovirus Article and Nurses Canada Article
Norovirus Article
The critique of this article is found to be the most appropriate. In that regard, the critique
identifies the strengths and the several weaknesses in the article. At various points, the
critique suggests how the study could have been best undertaken and presented. Moreover,
the critique identifies a weakness in the research purpose statement. In that regard, it is found
out that the researchers fail to suggest if they are taking the viewpoint of the society even
though, based on the cost estimates utilized, this tends to be the case.
Moreover, the critique identifies that in the article, the researchers fail to specify their
definition of children. In that sense, it is not clear whether they mean a biological definition
of a child or the age of the majority. The researchers compare their findings to another study
that considered children between the ages of five and seventeen years old and in their title,
they indicate school-age children (Venuto et al. 14).
Furthermore, the critique finds out that with the grouping of cases across the years, it
is hard to tell whether the illness burden is increasing, reducing, or remaining constant.
Moreover, the researchers are said not to have failed to discuss performing a sensitivity
analysis that would be of help. Finally, it found out that the researchers show that future
studies ought to encompass estimates of school closures regarding staff and student
absenteeism, as well as environmental decontamination costs. Hence, it tends that the
researchers should have focused on these estimates for their study, considering the study’s
title.
