Literature Review Assignment Instructions
Overview
To ensure you are basing your healthcare management practice and/or clinical practice on the most current evidence of best practices, it is important to use clinical guidelines, as well as conduct a review of literature in the form of current peer-reviewed journal articles. In this assignment, you will be choosing a clinical guideline from one of the sites identified in the below instructions, identifying recommendations from the guideline, and finding four research articles that support the recommendations in the guideline. You will also be identifying the purpose, results, method, design, and other components of each research article. Later in the term, you will be determining the level of evidence for each of the four research articles in order to identify the reliability of the research in each study.
Instructions
1. You will select ONE Clinical Guideline from one of these sites:
· National Institute of Health (NIH): National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health: https://nccih.nih.gov/health/providers/clinicalpractice.htm
o Click on the link for each guideline and read through them to decide which one to use. Make certain it is an actual clinical guideline. Some links are not to guidelines.
· American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/browse/type.tag-clinical-practice-guidelines.html
o Click on the topic of interest. Sometimes there is more than one clinical guideline in each topic. Choose only one. Be sure to click on “Read full recommendations”.
· American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP): https://www.aanp.org/education/169-education/obesity-accordion/1721-clinical-practice-guidelines
o Look for the blue bar toward the bottom of the page that says, “Clinical Practice Guidelines”. Click on one that interests you.
· American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:
https://www.aapmr.org/quality-practice/evidence-based-medicine/clinical-practice-guidelines/aapm-r-endorsed-guidelines
o Scroll down and click on any of the Clinical Practice Guidelines within the current Academy endorsement cycle.
2. You will read through the guideline to identify the recommendations/statements for patient care covered in the guideline. You will list all recommendations, up to six of them.
3. Search in the LUO Jerry Falwell Library or other reputable sites for 4 RESEARCH journal articles (published within past 10 yrs. for this assignment) that support and show research for some of the various recommendations/statements covered in the guideline you chose. Chose 2 quantitative and 2 qualitative research articles that support the recommendations/advice in the guideline that you chose. (One of the articles may be a mixed method research article.)
· Later in the course, you will be identifying the Levels of Evidence for each article that you chose. Therefore, you need research articles. It would serve you well to look ahead to the instructions for the Levels of Evidence Assignment so that you can ensure that the levels of evidence can be identified in each of the 4 articles as required. Search for your topic and add words like “quantitative”, “qualitative”, “mixed methods”, “systematic review”, randomized control trial, etc.
4. Fill out the Literature Review Assignment Template with the information that you identified in each of your 4 articles. Review the template and fill out each section appropriately:
· Student Name and Date: Include your name and the date the assignment is submitted
· Clinical Guideline Title: Type the guideline title as it is written in the actual guideline
· Guideline Recommendations: List and explain all recommendations in the guideline to direct patient care up to a limit of 6. Explain each recommendation in 50 words or less.
· Reference for Guideline: Put an APA-formatted reference, including a hanging indent, for the guideline in the appropriate space provided.
· Literature Review Title: Articles: Type in each article’s full title in APA formatting in the provided spaces. Be certain that Article 1 matches Article 1 in the reference list at the bottom of the template. References are to be in alphabetical order by the first letter of the first author’s last name of each article.
· Guideline Recommendation: Identify which of the guideline recommendation each article supports.
· Purpose of the research: Briefly explain the purpose of the research of each article.
· Results/Findings of the research: This information is usually found in the abstract and/or toward the end of each article
· Dependent variable: Explain the dependent variable. This is sometimes found in the title of the article or in the abstract or summary. This is the variable that is being evaluated.
· Independent variable: Explain the independent variable. This is what is predicted to change or affect the dependent variable, or what is being controlled or introduced to test the dependent variable?
· Research Method: Identify if the research project was quantitative, qualitative, or mixed method research
· Research Design: Identify the design of the research project such as; case-control trial, cohort study, cross-sectional study, descriptive study, expert committees, focus groups using interviews/questionnaires, literature reviews, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, observational study, opinion of authorities, qualitative study, quasi-experimental study, randomized control trial, systematic review of literature, etc.
· How was the data collected: Identify how the data was collected such as; Questionnaire, interviews, observations, measurements, systematic review of literature/articles, etc.
· Sample: Who? What? Number of participants? Number of articles reviewed? etc.
· Biblical Integration: If you quote Scripture, you must explain how it is integrated into the assignment. You must include an in-text citation for the version of the Bible used.
· References: The references are to be formatted in APA formatting, including a hanging indent. List in alphabetical order by the first letter in the first author’s name in each article. The number of the article must match the number in the template above the reference list.
· Version of Bible: Put the version of the Bible in the indicated spot on the template, even though it may not be in alphabetical order with the other references.
Note: Quotes and paraphrases in the template do not need to have citations or quotation marks as long as the material is in the column for that specific article.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.