NRS 8671 - Advanced Scientific Methods for Evidence-Based Practice

1. Problem Identification: Converting information needs into an answerable question
2. Finding the Evidence: Finding, with maximum efficiency, the best evidence with which to answer the question
3. Critique: Determining the merit, feasibility and utility of evidence
4. Summarize the Evidence: Combining findings from all evidence to make a practice recommendation
5. Application to Practice: Incorporating the recommendation into a clinical setting or organization
6. Evaluation – Determining the effective of the practice over time

• Problem formulation - which topic or field is being examined and what are the component issues?
• Literature search - finding materials relevant to the subject explored
• Data evaluation - determining which literature makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the topic
• Analysis and interpretations - discussing the findings and conclusions of pertinent literature

Free downloadable textbook - Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students

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OUWB Medical Library maintains a subscription to a tool -- Covidence -- that helps you manage the literature review by allowing you to import citations, conduct title and abstract screening, full text-screening, and data- extraction. The tool auto-generates data for the PRISMA diagrams of  systematic reviews.

1. Covidence Signup -- You need to first join the subscription with your OU email.
2. Covidence Login -- Once you have joined, you can log in to create and conduct reviews.

Video tutorials:

• Getting Started with Covidence
• Covidence Walk-Through Webinar