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Sampling Data Analyses the single-study critique paper 2 individual assignment. Develop individual response Single-Study Paper 2 IOM topic area. Use article Single Study Critiques 1-2. It a requirement a quantitative study paper.
Quantitative article analysis Ultimately, in comparing the success rates of the two groups, aspiration was much lower in the Aspiration Risk Reduction Protocol (ARRP) group than in the control (39% versus 88%). Pneumonia rates were also lower in the experimental ARRP group (19% versus 48%). using the Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score (CPIS) (Metheny, Davis-Jackson & Stewart 2010: 1; 5). Levels of consciousness, levels of sedation, and severity of disease was also assessed in the two groups before and after the experiment and the ARRP group was judged to be in better health than the control group by all measured indicators of overall wellness (Metheny, Davis-Jackson & Stewart 2010: 5).
The Nursing Research article "Effectiveness of an Aspiration Risk-Reduction Protocol" addresses a proposed method to reduce the risk of aspiration in critically ill patients through a three-pronged intervention strategy. The intervention strategy components include "maintaining head-of-bed elevation at 30 degrees or higher, unless contraindicated; inserting feeding tubes into distal small bowel, when indicated; and using an algorithmic approach for high gastric residual volumes" (Metheny, Davis-Jackson & Stewart 2010: 1). It used a two-group quasi-experimental design of critically ill, mechanically ventilated adult patients receiving tube feedings. 329 were in the control population, 145 in the experimental group (Metheny, Davis-Jackson & Stewart 2010: 1). The patients were all drawn from the same five ICUs at a Level I trauma located in the Midwest (Metheny, Davis-Jackson & Stewart 2010: 3).
Data collection was descriptive in nature and taken at 'face' value. "To determine the effect of the ARRP on frequency of aspiration, a t-test for independent groups was used to compare patients in the usual care and ARRP groups on the mean percentage of pepsin-positive tracheal secretions. To determine the effect of the ARRP on the incidence of pneumonia, a z-test for comparing proportions in…
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Metheny, Norma A., Jami Davis-Jackson & Barbara J. Stewart. (2010). Effectiveness of an Aspiration Risk-Reduction Protocol. Nursing Research, 59(1): 18 -- 25. Retrieved: doi:10.1097/NNR.0b013e3181c3ba05.
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