Article Review Link: http://www.medsci.org/v13p0749.pdf
Title: The title of the article I am reviewing is “Lower Body Mass Index is a Risk Factor for In-Hospital Mortality of Elderly Japanese Patients Treated with Ampicillin /sulbactam”
Abstract: Main objective and results of the article review: not specific (Consists of objectives, methods, results, and conclusion)
This scientific journal articles delves into the relationship between patients hospitalized with bacterial infections and their body mass index (BMI), which is a weight to height ratio used to determine whether a person is underweight, in the normal range, or overweight. Aside from having a control group and stated hypothesis in the beginning, the experiment conducted was like …show more content…
However, they excluded people with certain conditions: those with “liver or renal dysfunctions..., undergoing cancer chemotherapy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation..., ICU admission during hospitalization, or operation during hospitalization”(Miura et al., 2016). One strategy implemented in this experiment was that researches gave the patients a daily dose of Ampicillin/sulbactam 12g/day after learning it was “well tolerated and provides excellent clinical and bacteriological responses” in Japan. [10]. However, knowing that 12g/days a day was ideal, they also included the dosage of 9 d/day to possibly test and compare that to the results of …show more content…
Mean is the average of all the values, while standard deviation simply measures how dispersed the data values are from the mean. To compare the two groups of values, the researched group used the unpaired Student 's t-test/Welch 's test or Meann Whitney 's U test. Any P values with the probability of less than 5% were deemed significant. After treatment was completed, the results and changes were documented and compared “between survivors and nonsurvivors to obtain additional information that could be used to more effectively manage elderly patients (Miura et al., 2016).” This was important because not only are they trying to carefully examined their results, but also to find discover even more conclusive data that will help elderly patients survive
Title: The title of the article I am reviewing is “Lower Body Mass Index is a Risk Factor for In-Hospital Mortality of Elderly Japanese Patients Treated with Ampicillin /sulbactam”
Abstract: Main objective and results of the article review: not specific (Consists of objectives, methods, results, and conclusion)
This scientific journal articles delves into the relationship between patients hospitalized with bacterial infections and their body mass index (BMI), which is a weight to height ratio used to determine whether a person is underweight, in the normal range, or overweight. Aside from having a control group and stated hypothesis in the beginning, the experiment conducted was like …show more content…
However, they excluded people with certain conditions: those with “liver or renal dysfunctions..., undergoing cancer chemotherapy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation..., ICU admission during hospitalization, or operation during hospitalization”(Miura et al., 2016). One strategy implemented in this experiment was that researches gave the patients a daily dose of Ampicillin/sulbactam 12g/day after learning it was “well tolerated and provides excellent clinical and bacteriological responses” in Japan. [10]. However, knowing that 12g/days a day was ideal, they also included the dosage of 9 d/day to possibly test and compare that to the results of …show more content…
Mean is the average of all the values, while standard deviation simply measures how dispersed the data values are from the mean. To compare the two groups of values, the researched group used the unpaired Student 's t-test/Welch 's test or Meann Whitney 's U test. Any P values with the probability of less than 5% were deemed significant. After treatment was completed, the results and changes were documented and compared “between survivors and nonsurvivors to obtain additional information that could be used to more effectively manage elderly patients (Miura et al., 2016).” This was important because not only are they trying to carefully examined their results, but also to find discover even more conclusive data that will help elderly patients survive