Susan Warner Salmond Boeken

This text serves as an essential resource for DNP students, graduate faculty, APRNs, and healthcare providers, guiding them in utilizing research to enhance patient outcomes and reduce costs. As the only resource tailored specifically for DNP course objectives, the updated second edition introduces three new approaches: umbrella reviews, mixed-method reviews, and various review types for evidence synthesis and interpretation. It features two new examples of completed systematic reviews and proposals, presenting a comprehensive understanding of conducting a foundational comprehensive systematic review (CSR). The text details the entire process, from formulating clinical questions to implementing evidence in practice, and includes specific methods for analysis. It compares CSR methods with literature reviews, integrated reviews, and meta-studies, while also addressing how to locate and evaluate relevant studies, including unpublished grey literature. Additionally, it discusses disseminating findings to enhance clinical practice and outlines how to write a CSR proposal, final report, and policy brief. With numerous examples, including completed proposals and systematic reviews, the text provides a toolkit for conducting systematic reviews, along with useful software, objectives, summary points, end-of-chapter exercises, suggested readings, and references.