Critical Appraisal Assignment

Running head: CRITICAL APPRAISAL ASSIGNMENT
CRITICAL APPRAISAL ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Jennings, N., Gardner, G., O'reilly, G. and Mitra, B., 2015. Evaluating emergency nurse
practitioner service effectiveness on achieving timely analgesia: a pragmatic randomized
controlled trial. Academic Emergency Medicine, 22(6), pp.676-684.
Answer 1
Yes, the trial addressed a clearly focused population, studied in this pragmatic
randomized controlled trial (Jennings et al. 2015).
Answer 2
Yes, the primary aim of the researchers was to conduct the research and maintain the
randomized allocation of patients to the standard care process or to the intervention care process.
For this, they had three primary parameters to be fulfilled, the process using which
randomization was carried out, completing the allocation randomly till the last patient is
allocated to any of the groups and thirdly, concealing the allocation of patients from researchers
as well so that complete randomization could be achieved (Jennings et al. 2015).
In this aspect, the clinical research assistants were allocated to complete the patient
allocation related task and these assistants used the examination cubicle to decide which patient
will be subjected to the research. Further to randomize the process, they used the sequence of
four and this sequence was generated by the computer software that generated the sequence
randomly and then transcribed the sequences into various sequentially numbered sealed
envelopes so that randomized nature of the research could be maintained. However, participants
and the hospital staff were aware of the allocation of subject to different intervention groups and
primary investigators of the research were blind to the research.

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Answer 3
Yes, these parameters were also achieved by the researchers as both the trail group
analyzed the research outcomes within their research environment. Two patents were not
allocated to any group or intervention as they did not provided complete consent so that the study
could be conducted with them. However, the study was conducted for the pre-decided time
period and it did not stopped prior to that. Further, allocation of patients were done with
complete precision under the supervision of researchers assistant’s so that completely
authenticated results could be achieved. Therefore, from these evidences it could be easily
determined that the research article completely accounted for its conclusion (Hockenberry and
Wilson 2013).
Answer 4
In this randomized control trial the primary aim of the researchers was to understand the
effectiveness of nursing practitioner’s role in providing care and assistance in patients suffering
from tremendous pain and providing them with analgesics within specific time so that it could be
controlled. Therefore, researchers appointed clinical research assistants so that randomization f
patient allocation to the trail group and intervention group could be achieved. However, it was
seen that except research personnel who are primary investigators of the complete research
process, every individual such as patients, medical workers and healthcare professionals were
aware of the allocation process and the randomized trial was not hidden to them. However, it was
also noted that the treating staff or the people involved in the randomized trail control research
were blind to the research process and they were unaware of the allocation of the patient to the
intervention group. Further, all the primary investigators involved in the trail group as well as for