Assignment Task
Evidence Hierarchy of Designs based on Polit & Beck
- Systematic review or meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
- Systematic review or meta-analysis of nonradomized trials
- Multi-center RCTs
- Single RCT
- Single nonrandomized trial
- Single quasi-experimental study
- Systematic review or meta-analysis of correlational/observational studiesSingle correlational/observational/non- experimental/cohort/longitudinal study Systematic review or meta-synthesis of descriptive/qualitative/quantitative/physiologic studies (includes non-RCT)
- Single descriptive/qualitative/ physiologic/pilot/feasibility studies/ concept analyses/theory development Quality improvement projects
- Opinions of authorities, expert committees, letters to the editor, simple literature reviews, clinical guidelines
Instructions
The next section will have the heading "PICOT Question". Here you will write the Evidenced-Based Practice question as updated from your previous submissions. The next part is the "table of evidence" below. And lastly, a "reference" page. Your paper is aligned vertically (portrait), as usual, but the table is to be inserted horizontally (landscaped). Please do not re-create the table. Just use this one below keeping all the headings in place and writing only in non-shaded fields. Remember to delete these instructions.