In your health sciences courses, your professor may ask you to conduct a literature or scoping review on a clinical question. You then may be asked to create an annotated bibliography, evaluate and synthesize the articles you select, and recommend a clinical decision. This process, aligned with evidence-based practice (EBP), allows you to make clinical decisions based on recent and impactful research and articles.
One framework to help organize your clinical question is called PICOT, which helps you categorize:
The words you use in your PICOT categorizations will be used as keywords to find similar or exact words/phrases in a clinical database.
Once you identify your PICOT categories, start your literature or scoping review by using your category keywords to search in clinical databases, like CINAHL Complete, PubMed, and Ovid. Each of these databases use different terms, so a search strategy using CINAHL Complete Search Headings may need to be "re-translated" to PubMed MeSH terms.
The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) protocol is a method for conducting systematic reviews, especially in the health sciences fields, to ensure that the systematic review or meta-analysis is conducted appropriately.
JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) currently provides eight methodologies for systematic and scoping reviews included in this Manual, as follows:
The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official guide that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions.
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