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Table 3 Quality of the included studies

From: Drug-based pain management for people with dementia after hip or pelvic fractures: a systematic review

Author, year

Methods

Type of data

Data analysis

Primary outcome

Recruitment/data collection

Partici-pants

Critical appraisal

  

clinical

adminis-trative

inter-view

   

(PwD)

checklist

“yes”

“not applicable”

COHORT STUDIES

 Adunsky et al., 2002 [10]

retrospective chart review

✔

✔

-

° Pearson correlation test (age/gender/length of stay/type of fracture/dose of administered opiates)

° regression analysis

✔

2 years/1998–2000

184 (50)

SIGN

8/14

5/14

 Feldt et al. 1998 [33]

prospective comparative survey

✔

✔

✔

° chi square analysis

° Mann-Whitney test

° Student’s t-test

° multivariate regression analysis

✔

9 months/Feb–Oct 1995

88 (53)

SIGN

7/14

1/14

 Feldt et al. 2000 [35]

prospective comparative survey

✔

✔

✔

-

9 months/Apr–Dec 1997

85 (40)

SIGN

8/14

1/14

 Feldt & Gunderson 2002 [29]

secondary data analysis

✔

-

-

-

18 months/Feb–Oct 1995; Apr–Dec 1997

173 (93)

SIGN

8/14

3/14

 Grall 2010 [34]

retrospective chart review

✔

✔

-

° descriptive statistics

° ANOVA-Test

° analysis of variance

° chi square analysis

° regression analysis

✔

5 years/2005–2009

135 (72)

SIGN

7/14

5/14

 Jensen-Dahm et al. 2016 [22]

retrospective chart review

-

✔

-

 

✔

1 year/2009

1507 (296)

SIGN

6/14

5/14

 McDermott et al. 2014 [26]

retrospective chart review

✔

-

-

° t-test or x^2 test

✔

1 year/June 2011–June 2012

224 (64)

SIGN

7/14

3/14

 Morrison & Siu 2000 [12]

prospective chart review + interviews

✔

-

✔

° t-test

° chi square analysis

° multivariate regression analysis

✔

18 months/1 Sept 1996–1 Mar 1998

98 (38)

SIGN

9/14

2/14

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES

 Holdgate et al. 2010 [27]

retrospective chart review

✔

✔

-

° means with standard deviations (normally distributed variables)

° medians and interquartile ranges (continuous variables)

° x^2 test (categorical variables)

° Kruskall-Wallis test (time variables not normally distributed)

-

1 year/June 2006–May 2007

646 (42)

NICE

10/17

6/17

 Hwang et al. 2006 [28]

retrospective chart review

✔

✔

-

° log transformations

° bivariate Peason correlation test

° t-test

° chi square analysis

° logistic and linear regression models for multivariate analyses

-

1 year/Aug 1997–July 1998

158 (54)

NICE

11/17

5/17

 Mak et al. 2011 [31]

prospective chart review

✔

-

-

° chi square analysis

° ANOVA test

✔

1 year/Jan–Dec 2007

415 (154)

NICE

11/17

6/17

 Titler et al. 2003 [32]

retrospective chart review

✔

-

✔

° intraclass correlations (continuous variables)

° kappa statistic (categorical data)

° tetrachoric correlation coefficients

✔

1 year/

1 Jan–31 Dec 1999

709 (185)

NICE

11/17

6/17

CASE SERIES

 Ardery et al. 2003 [21]

retrospective chart review

✔

-

✔

° not applicable

✔

1 year/1 Jan–31 Dec 1999

8 (5)

JBI

7/10

1/10

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS´ SURVEYS

 Rantala & Kankkunen et al. 2012 [14]

descriptive questionaire

-

-

✔

° Likert scale

° t-test analysis of variance

° Speaman’s correlation

° qualitative data and content analysis

° explanatory factor analysis via Varimax rotation

° Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure

° Bartlett test of sphericity

° four-factor solution

N/A

2 months/March–May 2011

N/A

Green-halgh

8/13

0/13

 Rantala & Kankkunen et al. 2014 [23]

descriptive questionaire

N/A

8/13

0/13

 Rantala & Hartikainen et al. 2014 [25]

descriptive questionaire

-

-

✔

° chi square analysis

° Mann-Whitney U test

° Kruskal-Wallis test

° qualitative content analysis

N/A

2 months/March–May 2011

N/A

Green-halgh

4/13

0/13

 Rantala & Hartikainen et al. 2015 [24]

descriptive questionaire

° logistic regression analysis (Wald Forward method)

° deviation analysis via odds ratio

N/A

8/13

0/13

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