Critique on quantitative research article Analysis of cost of dressing in the care of burn patient.
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This article is taken from “2000 Elsevier Science Ltd and ISBI.”
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This article has been written on the analysis of cost of dressing in the care of burn unit. Different patient with different stages of burns were assessed for the coat of dressing after surgical procedures in a specialized burn unit of the Ribeirao Petro Medical School Clinical Hospital University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The stay of the patients during the burn wound care and cost of the care of wound is estimated. Dressing cost and stay of the patient depends on the nature of the …show more content…
Specialized nursing unit, department of specialized nursing, burns unit, operating unit and materials, department of mother child nursing and public health of Ribeirao Preto Medical School Clinical Hospital University of Sao Paulo Brazil. They were have good working experience in there specialized areas. They were well experienced and well informative in there specialized unit. They were well educated and well oriented about the patients and the level of care of the patients treated in those units. They were known about the financial stage of the people living in the area. They were known about the care and cost of the patient staying and treating in the hospital.
Title
The title of the article is not fully clear because according to the title they talk about the analysis of cost of dressing in care of burn patients but they studied only the patients above than 18 years and below than 18 years did not included in this study. They should mention in title that cost of dressing of patients above than 18 years. Cost and care heaving the same importance for both children and adult patients. …show more content…
Those authors verified that care costs were higher for patients with burns considered more severe and also that increase in cost was associated with the extent of the burned body area. Costs also increased with longer periods of hospital stays. In addition, these authors also verified a positive correlation to exist between the total cost of each patient's stay in the hospital and depth of burn. It is important to notice that length of stay can vary with depth of burn and an increase in hospitalization length implies a greater number of dressings done, besides other procedures, which cause costs to
Source
This article is taken from “2000 Elsevier Science Ltd and ISBI.”
Writing style
This article has been written on the analysis of cost of dressing in the care of burn unit. Different patient with different stages of burns were assessed for the coat of dressing after surgical procedures in a specialized burn unit of the Ribeirao Petro Medical School Clinical Hospital University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The stay of the patients during the burn wound care and cost of the care of wound is estimated. Dressing cost and stay of the patient depends on the nature of the …show more content…
Specialized nursing unit, department of specialized nursing, burns unit, operating unit and materials, department of mother child nursing and public health of Ribeirao Preto Medical School Clinical Hospital University of Sao Paulo Brazil. They were have good working experience in there specialized areas. They were well experienced and well informative in there specialized unit. They were well educated and well oriented about the patients and the level of care of the patients treated in those units. They were known about the financial stage of the people living in the area. They were known about the care and cost of the patient staying and treating in the hospital.
Title
The title of the article is not fully clear because according to the title they talk about the analysis of cost of dressing in care of burn patients but they studied only the patients above than 18 years and below than 18 years did not included in this study. They should mention in title that cost of dressing of patients above than 18 years. Cost and care heaving the same importance for both children and adult patients. …show more content…
Those authors verified that care costs were higher for patients with burns considered more severe and also that increase in cost was associated with the extent of the burned body area. Costs also increased with longer periods of hospital stays. In addition, these authors also verified a positive correlation to exist between the total cost of each patient's stay in the hospital and depth of burn. It is important to notice that length of stay can vary with depth of burn and an increase in hospitalization length implies a greater number of dressings done, besides other procedures, which cause costs to