Summaries and Syntheses: Making Sense of Evidence Based Practice

We hear about Summaries, Guidelines, and Syntheses as a gold standard in Evidence Based Practice, but what are they? Why are they so highly regarded? We will investigate these different types of evidence, and where to find them.

Learning Objectives:

1. Investigate the Evidence pyramid and how this applies to your evidence based practice
2. Understand different types of synthesis & guidelines
3. Discover guideline & synthesis resources and where to find them