Critical Appraisal Of Literature Review: Effectiveness of Pressure Ulcer Prevention Strategies for Adult Patients in Intensive Care Units

Running head: CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF LITERATURE REVIEW
Critical Appraisal Of Literature Review
Effectiveness of Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Strategies for Adult Patients in Intensive
Care Units: A Systematic Review
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Review question...............................................................................................................................3
Systematic review or meta-analysis.............................................................................................3
Clearly focused question..............................................................................................................4
Population studied.......................................................................................................................4
Intervention given........................................................................................................................4
Outcome considered....................................................................................................................4
Literature search..............................................................................................................................4
Comprehensive literature search..................................................................................................4
Study design and its appropriateness...........................................................................................4
Usage of appropriate database and outside resources..................................................................5
Methods of assessing risk of bias................................................................................................5
Quality of the review.......................................................................................................................6
Characteristics of the included & excluded criteria.....................................................................6
Reviewers....................................................................................................................................6
Appraisal checklist.......................................................................................................................6
Data synthesized..........................................................................................................................7
Results..............................................................................................................................................7
Overall results..............................................................................................................................7

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Publication bias............................................................................................................................7
Precision of the results.................................................................................................................8
Result analysis.................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The paper aims to provide a critical appraisal of the chosen health related systematic
literature review that discusses about the effectiveness of the Pressure Ulcer (PU) prevention
strategies for adult patients. To control the building of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers
(HAPUs), the healthcare industry is emphasizing on scientific and innovative strategies for the
advancement of the medical inventions. The reduction of the occurrences of HAPUs is
prioritized due to the frequent occurrence and high risk factor associated with it among adult
patients (McInnes et al., 2015). This article systematically and analytically judges the
effectiveness of the prescribed clinical research paper to evaluate whether the requirements and
proposed deliverables are met or not at the end of the research (LoBiondo-Wood et al., 2013).
Usually, the prevention of PU is easier by adopting multiple prevention strategies. Thus, the
purpose of the literature study is to research and analyse whether a single prevention strategy is
impactful for preventing PU or not.
Review question
Systematic review or meta-analysis
A systematic review can be described as a variation of literature review where the
purpose is to address the identification, analytical evaluation, and accumulation of the
discoveries from the result. The author utilises systematic methodologies for systematic review.
On the other hand, the meta-analysis can be defined as the statistical processes that use statistical
tools for drawing conclusion on the collected data (Athappan et al., 2013). It uses specific
quantitative measures, like evaluating effect size, for identifying association among variables.
The result of the research study calculates the effect size as result (Wacker et al., 2013). The
chosen report is therefore a representative of both systematic review and meta-analysis.