Article Analysis 2
Search the GCU Library and find two new health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles from a previous assignment, or articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook.
Complete an article analysis for each using the “Article Analysis: Part 2” template.
Refer to the “Patient Preference and Satisfaction in Hospital-at-Home and Usual Hospital Care for COPD Exacerbations: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial,” in conjunction with the “Article Analysis Example 2,” for an example of an article analysis.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
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Article Analysis 2
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Article 1
Jabarpour, M., Dehghan, M., Afsharipour, G., Hajipour Abaee, E., Mangolian Shahrbabaki, P., Ahmadinejad, M., & Maazallahi, M. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Nosocomial Infection Rate: A Case of Iran. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2021. |
Article 2
Grasselli, G., Scaravilli, V., Mangioni, D., Scudeller, L., Alagna, L., Bartoletti, M., … & Bandera, A. (2021). Hospital-Acquired Infections in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Chest. |
| Point | Description | Description |
| Broad Topic Area/Title | The Impact of Covid-19 eruption on Hospital Acquire Infections Rate. | Nosocomial infections in Critical ill Patients with Covid-19. |
| Define Hypotheses | The Covid-19 preventive practices have significantly lowered the nosocomial infection rate. | The critically ill patients with Covid-19 are at a greater risk of acquiring hospital infections especially BSIs and VAPs from MDR organisms. |
| Define Independent and Dependent Variables and Types of Data for Variables | Covid-19 Outbreak- Independent Variable
Nosocomial Infection Rates – Dependent Variable |
Hospital acquired Infections- Independent Variable
Critically Ill patients with Covid 19- Dependent variable |
| Population of Interest for the Study | The study included all patients in the intensive care and medical-surgical units. | The study focused on adult patients in eight Italian hub hospitals with severe Covid-19. |
| Sample | 6135 hospital admissions cases | 774 patients admitted in Italian hub hospitals. |
| Sampling Method | The study relied on purpose sampling which was used to select all the data linked to nosocomial infection rate of medical surgical unites and intensive care units. | The study relied on prospective sampling whereby the cases for inclusion are selected on the basis of exposure to a certain risk factor. The participants are then monitored to follow and see whether the condition of interest will be encountered. The prospectively collected data include adult patients that had severe Covid-19. |
| How Were Data Collected? | A cross-sectional design was used to gather data on nosocomial infection before and during Covid-19 outbreak. The infection surveillance system was used to evaluate the infection control. Data collection on the hospital acquired infections was conducted by the infection control team. SPSS 20 was used to analyze the data to describe the percentage, frequency and confidence interval of the nosocomial infection rates before and during the Covid-19 outbreak. | The data was gathered through multicenter retrospective analysis of the prospective data. Univariate, multivariate and descriptive statistics were used to assess the microbial cause, incidence, risk factors and resistance patterns of the confirmed hospital acquired infections. |
