comparing Average Length of Stay between Acute Care and Not Acute Care Hospitals". He wants us to review 5 articles on literature reviewed.
There are 2 parts to this assignment. Part 1 is a qualitative analysis using Review Manager 5 tools to analyze the risk of bias for 5 articles from the literature on the topic your group selected. Part 2 is a quantitative data analysis design, the report on that design, the actual analysis of the data, (again) based on the topic your group selected, and a report of the findings.
The following are the main steps to perform this team project. When writing your report for this assignment, please use the section headers and the numbering for the various steps outlined below (starting from step #2.1):
Step #2: Performing the Qualitative analysis
2.1. This section of the assignment is aimed at giving students an opportunity to select and analyze at least 5 articles using the ‘Review Manager 5’ tools. The tools will enable you to analyze the risk of bias for the 5 selected articles following these steps:
Setting Up Review Manager 5
Make sure that RevMan is currently in the ‘Non-Cochrane’ mode (not “Standard” mode). You can set that as Tools > Preferences > General > enable 'Non-Cochrane mode'
When RevMan 5 opens, click on the blank page icon in the top left-hand corner. This will bring up the new review wizard and you can then write your review and save it to your computer. You should not see any interface with the Cochrane login or the Cochrane server.
Information sources and search strategy
Report on which published literature sources you searched, which keywords you used, and whether you limited your search to particular publication years. Create your keywords from your research topic. So, your objective should be to select from the published literature, at least 5 studies based on the keywords you created. They should be studies that were published to answer the same research question you are answering with your group research topic.
For each of the studies you decide to include in your review, complete “Table 1 – Literature Review Analysis – by Your Name” in your assignment report. As we discussed earlier two separate members of your group should do this independently (that means you don’t share information while you are doing any of this). At the end when you have put together your final group report, of course, everyone in the group will see these two sets of separate tables (Table 1 and Table 2.)