URINARY TRACT INFECTION 2
Running head: URINARY TRACT INFECTION 1
Urinary tract infection: Critique of quantitative and qualitative research
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Introduction
Information is a vital thing in the health care system. For nurses to know and understand a certain disease or complication, they need to have to do deep research to get more information so that they can make a final decision. As a result, nurses are supposed to know the importance of using qualitative and quantitative methods to get data and analyze it. However, the purpose of this paper is to offer a critique of the numerous ideas of a quantitative and a qualitative study on articles about the urinary tract infection.
Information
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) has become the major hospital-acquired infection that affects about 1.7 million patients a year. Moreover, the hospital-acquired urinary tract infection has increased the death rate and increasing the hospital bills due to the length of days that a patient stays for treatment. The reason why the hospital urinary tract infection is growing among the patients it is because of health care systems not developing new ways that can help reduce the infections thus increase the chances of recovery to the patients. The people that are in danger of the urinary infections are women and the elderly who have diabetes. Also, the patients that are passing through the colorectal surgery have a high chance of being infected by urinary tract infections. On the other hand, the use of urinary catheters for a very long time has become another cause for the spreading of infections and isolation of patients form their families and friends.
Quantitative
In the study that was conducted by Harries et al (2018), the researcher aimed at investigating if the population was defenseless to developing urethra tract infections (UTIs) and determining the effects of health center in the establishment of Medicaid and Medicare determined policy on hospitals acquired urethra tract infections and centers acquired urethra tract infections rate in surgeries that are done in different facilities (Harries et al. 2018). The data was collected from the reviews of the patients from a specific hospital that has surgeries procedures from 2009 to 2015. The experience had some limitations whereby, the was a small number of patients that had hospital-acquired urethra tract infections the period when the heir was a selection for examination policy effectiveness. As a result, the group had a hard time to measure compliance to policy in the population.
In the study conducted by Chapple et al. (2016), the researcher observed about innovating the urinary catheters so that you can reduce the spread of infection to patients. In the article 36 people living with the urinary catheter for a very long time. The author researched a qualitative research approach whereby he drew information from the existing theory and from the previous research between 2011 to 2013. The participants who to took part in the in the study of people living with catheter were living with the catheter for at least three months. The research involved the use of “snow ball” for sampling and personal contacts in helping with recruitment. However, there was a big number of participants whereby contributing a large number of samples that were almost difficult and impossible to complete in sampling together.
Qualitative
The purpose of the research that was conducted by Harries et al. (2018) was to study the rate of the surgery patients that had not improved form the urinary tract infection despite the introduction of a policy to reduce the number of indwelling catheters days. The patients suffered psychological torture whereby they used to get scorned by their friends and families. On the other hand, due to having the indwelling catheters for a very long time the patients get exposed to urinary tract infections that cost them a lot of money for treatment and admission in the hospital.
On the other hand, the purpose of the research that was done by Chapple et al. (2018), to study the interest in medical technology in the introduction of new catheters that will help to reduce hospital-acquired urinary tract infections. The hospitals have to embrace new technology and allow the introduction of new improvements and modified catheters that will be effective to the patients. The patients used to be affected by the fact they had catheters that were revealing to the public thus affecting their relationships with the friends and families.
Summary
The research done above is about doing critical quantitative, and a qualitative essay between two articles on the hospital-acquired urinary tract infections and the idea of introducing new catheters that will be beneficial in reducing the infection rate. The research focused on the institution policy and implementing to reduce the catheter days. Additionally, the research looked at the ways technology can be incorporated into the hospitals for the benefit of improving the design of the catheters for the aim of reducing urinary tract infection. The research used different methods to get data and information such as interviews and “snow ball” for personal sampling contacts. Moreover, the results showed that there were a lot of patients suffering from psychological stress and infections and the hospitals had no interest in improving nor making new catheters despite a lot of proposals.
References
Chapple et al. (2016). Drawing on Accounts of Long-Term Urinary Catheter Use: Design for the “Seemingly Mundane”. Qualitative health research, 26(2), 154-163.
Harris et al. (2018). Effect of a hospital-associated urinary tract infection reduction policy on general surgery patients. The American Journal of Surgery, 215(4), 658-662.