Levels Of Clinical Inquiry And Systematic Reviews Week 2
Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?
In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.
To Prepare:
· Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
· Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest you identified in Module 2 for the Assignment. This PICOT question will remain the same for the entire course.
· Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library. Identify at least four relevant systematic reviews or other filtered high-level evidence, which includes meta-analyses, critically-appraised topics (evidence syntheses), critically-appraised individual articles (article synopses). The evidence will not necessarily address all the elements of your PICO(T) question, so select the most important concepts to search and find the best evidence available.
· Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.
The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)
Week 2: Clinical Inquiry Levels and Systematic Reviews
Week 2: Clinical Inquiry Levels and Systematic Reviews
The first step in buying a new car is to figure out what variables are important to you. You collect evidence and try to grasp the breadth of that evidence as you seek for cars that score high on those categories. A report claiming that a specific brand and model of car has a high mileage rating is promising. But who wrote the report in the first place? How reliable is it? What methods were used to collect data, and what was the sample size?
By attentively studying your PICO(T) question in this Assignment, you will go deeper into clinical investigation. You also start analyzing the evidence you’ve gathered.
How to Get Ready:
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