Reflection on Learning week 7

WEEK 6

Does the author clearly identify the scope of the evidence synthesis? Explain your rationale.

    Evidence in an essay needs to reflect important aspects that show that the work is credible and supported by personal explanations and ideas (Lewin, 2018). Suppose the work is not written to suggest that it explains essential work (Sutherland, 2018). In that case, it can be seen as article summaries that have not incorporated any explanation and can give the reader a negative impression of the work. In the discussion, the given case study will be appraised in terms of the presentation of evidence.

      The scope of synthesis in the given case reading has been achieved to a greater extent because the reader can see the main aspects have been identified well. If assuming that the writer was using the SPICE tool to determine the synthesis for the scope of work, it can be clear to say that the setting is in hospitals, the perspectives are on patients falling due to various reasons given such as urgency, medications, and unfamiliar environment, interventions such as an increase in staff turnover, comparisons, and evaluation of the likelihood of it happening.

 Are strong paraphrased sentences included that are supported by contemporary sources of research evidence? Explain your rationale

An assertive sentence presents ideas on totality and helps the reader get to the main point. For instance, the opener is a strong sentence because it has the main ideas presented in the discussion, the fall part, and the prevention part. When looking at all the work in general, the sentences in the paragraphs are vital because they present an idea on their own and even have a backing of evidence in them from which most are retrieved from different scholars. The work is also retrieved from contemporary sources in that it is from the last five years in 2017. The research would have been different if it had gone beyond the threshold of time part 5 years.

Are the facts related to the practice problem presented in an objective manner? Explain your rationale.

      The presentation of objectives in the case analysis and presentation of facts in the essay is effective. For instance, there is a good flow of information from the topic sentence to the last part. It is a subdivision of facts to the last part, which gives the recommendations. Facts presented include statistics, relations, and cause. In one paragraph, it explained all crucial aspects of patients' falls in acute care and the recommendations to reduce the rate of falls by increasing care quality. The citations also help present facts on the discussion essay.

Does the author use sources to support ideas and claims, and not the other way around? Explain your rationale.

       The author uses two references and three citations to back up the work in a more reasonable discussion. At first, I thought the writer had a lot of citations in presenting the information. However, upon close examination, I realized it was essential to use all three citations to back up the work and present the explanations in the most efficient way possible. If the work did not have sources, it would be hard o tell how credible the information is or if any research was done to give factual data.

Based on your appraisal, is this exemplar a true synthesis of the evidence? Or is it a summary of the evidence? Explain your rationale.

    In the discussion given, the author has tried to synthesize the information, but the more significant part looks like a summary of evidence. The information presented is on critical factors that give detailed information and is still lacking information to qualify to be a perfect synthesis of evidence. More information would be needed in all the aspects to make it stop looking like an abstracting summary but a proper synthesis of evidence.

 

References

Lewin, S., Booth, A., Glenton, C., Munthe-Kaas, H., Rashidian, A., Wainwright, M., ... & Noyes, J. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series.

Sutherland, W. J., & Wordley, C. F. (2018). A fresh approach to evidence synthesis.