NHS FPX 4000 Assessment 2 Applying Research Skills Identifying peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue

 

To analyze the error and find the solutions, only peer-reviewed journal articles from the last five years that concentrate on the use of tabards and medication error reporting systems were selected. Databases such as CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and SAGE were used to search the articles. Keywords such as tabards to prevent medication errors, medication error report system, preventing medication errors, and tabards for nurses to find the articles. Filters such as date of publishing, clinical trials, and language to filter the results. Out of 631 results, 20 quantitative articles were selected. Further, the final four articles were selected after analyzing the abstract, type of study, research methodology, journal type, and abstract.

Credibility and relevance of information sources

Credibility ad relevance of sources was analyzed by identifying the qualification of the authors, the relevance of their qualification to the problem, previous research by authors on the topic, whether funding and bias included, year of publication and relevance to current nursing environment, methodology, sampling, and study type, and credibility of journals used to publish the articles. Peer-reviewed articles were selected for the annotated bibliography.