In adult females who suffer frequent urinary tract infection

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Written Assignment - Searching for evidence

Description: You are required to select any one of the scenarios and PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcome) question provided (available in LEO National assessments tile) to search for evidence. You are required to provide a description of your search and discuss the relevance and credibility of the evidence provided to answer the question.

Instructions: Select one of the scenarios and the linked answerable question to address the following:

1. Identify your choice of key words/search terms and how you located them.

2. Identify at least two (2) possible sources of information and justify your choices.

3. Search for evidence to answer the question and describe your search process and strategies used. Considering your findings (sensitivity/specificity) you are required to refine your search.

4. Refine your initial search and describe how you did this.

5. Include a table (Richardson-Tench et al., 2016, p.47) to demonstrate your search using the headings 'actions', 'search mode', 'results', and 'limiters'.

6. Using the evidence matching the scenario/answerable question, discuss the relevance and credibility of the evidence and how it relates to the question.

Scenario-

Yani is a 31 year old arts student who suffers from recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI). Usually Yani is prescribed a course of oral antibiotics for the treatment and prevention of her UTI. Yani has been reading on the internet about cranberry juice being used to prevent urinary tract infections and is now considering whether or not to include cranberry juice in her diet on a regular basis.

Answerable question-

In adult females who suffer frequent urinary tract infections is cranberry juice compared to antibiotics more effective in preventing urinary tract infection?

Evidence: Jepson, R. G., Williams, G., & Craig, J. C. (2012). Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 10. Art. No.: CD001321. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001321.pub5. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001321.pub5/full

Reference no: EM131188845

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