Answering the following questions – 1. What was the purpose of this study? 2. W

Answering the following questions –
1. What was the purpose of this study?
2. What was the study design?
3. Was this study design appropriate for the study question?
4. Were the subjects appropriately recruited?
5. How many subjects were included? Does that provide adequate power to the study?
6. What kinds of statistics were used? Do these appropriately appraise the data?
7. What conclusions were drawn?
8. Were there limitations discussed? If so, can you identify any others that could have been mentioned?