Your book explains the concept of sampling or eligibility criteria. What are inclusion and exclusion sampling criteria? Why is it important to understand these in a research study that you are reviewing?
Sampling or eligibility criteria include list of characteristics essential for eligibility or
membership in the target population
Inclusion sampling criteria are characteristics that the subject or element must
possess to be part of the target population
Age 18 years and older, must speak and read English and surgical
replacement of one knee joint
Exclusion sampling criteria are characteristics that can cause a person or
element to be excluded from the target population
History of previous joint replacement surgery, dementia, chronic muscle