Open AccessEffects of different oral care scrubs on ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention for machinery ventilates patient
Author(s) -
Huaping Wei,
Kelu Yang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000014923
Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , cinahl , ventilator associated pneumonia , medline , odds ratio , intensive care medicine , intensive care unit , pneumonia , confidence interval , publication bias , subgroup analysis , emergency medicine , incidence (geometry) , protocol (science) , relative risk , alternative medicine , nursing , psychological intervention , pathology , physics , optics , political science , law
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as pneumonia develops in intensive care unit (ICU) patients who have been mechanically ventilated for at least 48 hours. Implementing effective oral car could reduce the incidence of VAP. However, previous studies on scrubs in oral care have failed to suggest which the best choice. Therefore, this protocol proposes to perform a network meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of different oral care scrubs in preventing VAP. Methods: We are going to search the electronic databases: Cochrane Oral Health's Trials Register, CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. Study selection and data collection will be performed independently by 2 reviewers. Cochrane Risk of Bias tool will be used to assess the risk of bias of included studies. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) will be used to assess the incidence rate of VAP in critical patients. The evidence mapping (EM) method will be introduce as a tool intended to complement the conventional systematic review (SR) and is suitable for this issue, at the same time, R software will be used for representing the outcome of EM–SR. We shall assess the heterogeneity on the bias of the magnitude of heterogeneity variance parameter ( I 2 or Cochrane Q ). We are also going to conduct subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis if needed. The application of Stata and R software will be performed the calculations. Results: The results of this study will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. Conclusion: This network meta-analysis will provide comprehensive evidence of different scrubs in oral care for preventing VAP. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42018117019.