3.1 Qualitative Appraisal for Selected Papers
Summary of the reviewed studies illustrated in Table 2, it includes; authors names, year, setting, sample size, intervention, outcomes measures, and results of the articles reviewed. A total of 4 RCT and 4 quasi-experimental studies were involved for the final assessment.
Some of the selected studies focused on inpatients8-11 and one study by Laustsen et al12 on outpatients, while some studies focused on in/outpatients.13-15 All studies revealed a positive impact of CRP on HRQoL and physiological outcomes of CABG patients. This review was applied by the primary author (MS) and confirmed by the secondary authors (MR, and MH). Any differences were discussed and fixed by consensus.
One study rated as high quality in RCT studies 10,11 was moderately high, and low moderate8,14 while quasi-experimental studies found that Akbari and Celik9 and Laustsen et al.12 were moderately high and Pacaric et al.13 and Sprioski et al.15 were rated as low moderate quality. Table 3 and 4 show the methodological quality on the criteria listed in the CONSORT & TREND checklist.