401383 Evidence In Health - Assessment 3

Assessment 3: Evidence Summary Assignment

This assignment continues directly from the previous Evidence Selection assignment, for which you identified an evidence question, conducted a search in CINAHL, identified characteristics, selected best available evidence, and justified your reasoning.

In this second assignment, you will now search in other databases that might change your best evidence selection. You will consider the results of your three articles of best available evidence.

Section 1
You will summarise the results of these articles to provide a best evidence summary that answers your original evidence question.

This evidence summary should:

• Summarise the key finding(s) of the studies as described by the authors.
• Compare and contrast the finding(s) of the three evidence articles.
• Answer the original evidence question.
• Discuss finding(s) in the context of strength of evidence.

Section 2
Consider the following statement.

“The ability to self-assess, monitor and minimise personal bias is the basis for personal and professional information literacy and evidence-based practice.”

At the completion of this process, from evidence question to evidence answer, you are asked to reflect on your personal and professional biases and identify what new understanding and skills you are developing that aim to minimise bias. How this has changed how you question and find answers about evidence.

The reflection has no required structure.