NURS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allergic Rhinitis, Systematic Review, Common Cold
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Note: this guide is intended to highlight the most important features of critical appraisal. It is not all-inclusive, and does not represent any specific currently-available critical appraisal tool (cat). Title: heated, humidified air for the common cold http://onlinelibrary. wiley. com/doi/10. 1002/14651858. cd001728. pub5/epdf/standard. Identify the picots for this article. (pico = patient intervention comparator . Were all populations in included studies similar (trying to determine homogeneity versus heterogeneity) P = patients of all ages (children and adults), suffering from common cold or acute viral rhino-pharyngitis. I = warm vapour inhalation (heated, humidified air) C = room temperature air or humidified air. O = primary: reduction in clinical severity of symptoms. Page 3: authors did not include a flow chart or diagram illustrating inclusion/exclusion process, but did identify all selected studies in the. Data collection methods section (page 4) and in more detail beginning page 6 under description of studies .
