This assignment will be an approximately 7 slide ppt presentation. Use these suggestions for your slides:
1. title slide with your name, course, date, etc
2. Introduction and purpose for your inquiry
3. PICO(T) question. Please identify P.I.C.O. and T
4. The 4 databases you used for your search (You may have new ideas following the suggestions in the forum. Articles should provide RESEARCH for the INTERVENTION you have selected for your inquiry and not just genera in nature. Did the intervention you proposed have an effect on the outcome you named? If you do not already have 4 articles with this detail you will need to search again) You need to USE four databases but your articles no not need to be from each of the 4 databases
5. For each of 4 research articles pertaining to your idea give a brief notation of the level of evidence (your articles should be systematic reviews or highest level of evidence possible). On this slide also be sure to mention the benefit of using a systematic review, even if you do not have a source utilizing one. These articles may be the same as you used for the past assignment if they fit. Some have had to change topics or variables, or your previous articles might not have been high levels of evidence, and therefore you may need new articles. There is reading about “level of evidence”. This is not the purpose or design of the study, it’s the numerical strength of the research and will be graded as level I through level V. Give rationale for your rating.
6. Conclusion slide
7. A slide with all your resources typed in APA format (double spaced, indented, properly italicized where pertinent according to the new APA manual). You will have 4 references pertaining to research (cited in the ppt and referenced on last slide). By the way the new APA manual does not use “retrieved” unless you include the date, nor typing of the city of publisher in references.
The ppt for this week’s assignment requires you to identify the levels of evidence for the 4 studies you have chosen relative to your PICOT question. You do not need to summarize the articles, just identify level of evidence which is based on the methodology.
Here is a reminder of levels of evidence for you:
Level of evidence (LOE)
Description
Level I
Evidence from a systematic review or meta-analysis of all relevant RCTs (randomized controlled trial) or evidence-based clinical practice guidelines based on systematic reviews of RCTs or three or more RCTs of good quality that have similar results.
Level II
Evidence obtained from at least one well-designed RCT (e.g. large multi-site RCT).
Level III
Evidence obtained from well-designed controlled trials without randomization (i.e. quasi-experimental).
Level IV
Evidence from well-designed case-control or cohort studies.
Level V
Evidence from systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies (meta-synthesis).
Level VI
Evidence from a single descriptive or qualitative study.
Level VII
Evidence from the opinion of authorities and/or reports of expert committees.
PICOT QUESTION
Population (P): Hospitalized adult patients at risk for pressure injuries.
Intervention (I): Implementation of a comprehensive prevention protocol.
Comparison (C): Standard care practices.
Outcome (O): Incidence of pressure injuries.
Time (T): Three-month period.
You need to state in the intervention “formal hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevention protocol” and for the intervention “lack of a formal HAPI prevention protocol”
