Medical - Case Study Assessment

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Running head: CASE STUDY ASSESSMENT
CASE STUDY ASSESSMENT
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Running head: CASE STUDY ASSESSMENT
Scenario 1
Answer 1
Is pain relief for acute pain management mask the effect of diagnostic accuracy in an acute
abdominal pain patient in emergency care unit?
Answer 2
Health professionals might search PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE and other databases such as
general internet sites for an answer to clinically focused questions. There databases may be the
Chocrane library that includes evidence-based practice databases and provide high quality
information about health care interferences. Other sources may be textbooks, manufactures,
formal education, interpersonal interactions between colleagues and mentors. Among these
databases some are highly valid and reliable in terms of accessing data. Some sources rationality
may be questionable in case of general internet sources. The internet databases like PubMed,
CINHAL, and MEDLINE are very much helpful for supporting information in clinical practice.
This information is used for retrieving research. Textbooks are another option used for providing
specific information. These can help participants in assisting clinical decision-making and such
texts are utilized for identifying drug interactions. These sources are regarded as non-evidence
based and contradict with internet sources on the basis of that. Interpersonal interactions
between mentors, clients, and colleagues are used as useful sources of information in clinical
practice. This information sometimes can be used as important and insightful otherwise
undependable and untrustworthy. Formal education can help in some ways to gain preliminary
knowledge, skill to find sources for medical treatment. The advantages of using Internet

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databases are more logical and reliable as the information is cross checked by the developer.
Databases also provide quick access to search and easily accessible. It is possible that the results
may be non-specific. The data that are provided in the database is not similar with the data
examined. Sometimes it may happen that the inclusion and exclusion criteria are not correctly
matching with the evaluating data.
Answer 3
In CINAHL database, first search the terms that will be appropriate for the intervention.
After that, another perception may be considered in the PICO question like comparison or the
outcome of the research. If the searching procedure is not significant with the research topic then
again it should be revised with other terms. In the search box, the key terms related to the
formation of PICO Question will be “acute”, “abdomen”, “elderly people”, “pain assessment”,
“emergency department”. The process that has been chosen for evaluating as is directs a review
of qualitative evidence. It will be helpful in case studies for reviewing qualitative studies. The
searching technique can be restricted by specifying the type of participants. Here, the attendants
will be the age of 45 and the category of the patient will be assessed only emergency department.
Answer 4
The domain of the question is in PICO format. Here, the question is formed from the case study.
Answer 5
The cross-sectional study would be best to satisfy the answer. This study evaluates the
relationship among disease and other factors and it also helps to identify the prevalence of
disease and measures the accuracy of laboratory tests.

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Section 2
The critical appraisal is done with the help of CASP systemic review checklist (Refer to
Appendices).
Did the review address a clearly focused question?
In this article, the author clearly addressed the clinical focused question.
Did the authors look for the right type of papers?
The author effectively related the outcome with the primary goal of the article.
Do you think all the important, relevant studies were included?
The different kinds of outcome that are measured are the primary assessment, rate of
accurate management decisions, incorrect diagnosis, morbidity rate, hospital stay and many other
factors. They performed the entire experiment in a specific population. Here, the chosen
population is adult patient who are suffering from acute abdominal pain.
Did the review’s authors do enough to assess quality of the included studies?
The author stated the review question and it completely associated with the results. In this
paper, the author took help of the method Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). It is an approved
methodology that is specially assigned into two or more groups and usually performed for
obtaining an intervention that is being examined with control group (Trompetter et al, 2015).
If the results of the review have been combined, was it reasonable to do so?
This design allows evaluation of relative outcomes of interventions. Therefore, the study
effectively used to evaluate the consequence.