NURS521 Module 5 Assignment Search for Systematic Review

Name: Anne Gonzalez

Date: November 26, 2014

Cochrane Library Evidence Search Table for Systematic Reviews

Assigned PICOT Question: Do hospitalized patients who use patient-controlled administration of pain
medication experience decreased pain compared to patients whose pain medication is administered by
the nurse across hospitalization?

Search terms used:
Record number of research studies identified
with initial search:
Record number of systematic reviews with
filters applied:
Select two systematic reviews and provide
references for both systematic reviews using
APA 6th Edition formatting:
Search terms: (1) PCA, Patient controlled administration,
patient self administered pain management, conventional
opioid analgesia, pain management, patient controlled
intravenous analgesia, IV pain medications, RN pain
administration
Number with 1st initial search: (2) 8,756
Number with filters: (3) 87
Systematic Review 1 Reference: (4)
Hudcova, J., McNicol, E. D., Quah, C. S., Lau, J. S., & Carr, D. B.
(2012). Patient controlled opioid analgesia versus conventional
opioid analgesia for postoperative pain. The Cochrane
Collaboration, 1-91.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003348.pub2.

Systematic Review 2 Reference: (5)

Clarkson, J.E., Worthington, H.V., Furness, S., McCabe M., Khalid T.,
Meyer, S. (2010) Interventions for treating oral mucositis for
patients with cancer receiving treatment. Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews 2010 Aug; (8), 1-79 doi:
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 10.1002/14651858.CD001973.pub4.

Provide a quote with page number that Systematic Review 1: (6)

confirms each article as presenting a
systematic review: ThisreviewprovidesevidencethatPCAisanefficaciousalternativeto
conventionalsystemicanalgesiaforpostoperativepaincontrol
(Hudcovaetal.,2012,p.2).

Systematic Review 2: (7)

Thisreviewoftherapiesforestablishedmucositisshowslimited
evidence,fromtwosmalltrialsincludingatotalof57participants,that
lowlevellasertreatmentreducedmucositisseverity,andunreliable
evidencethatopiatedeliveredbyPCAresultsinalowertotaldoseof
opiate,andimproveddurationofpaincontrolcomparedtodeliverybya
continuousinfusion.

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