Develop a search strategy for your review: inclusion and exclusion criteria, search terms, databases to search.
You should work on this assignment in two parts, completing the literature review first and subsequently building a protocol/proposal that has used the current state of evidence as its foundation. The final written assignment will be presented as one document to integrate the literature review and the project proposal.
Part 1: Literature Review* – approximately 1500 words
Identify a topic for your review and write the research question that your review will answer.
Develop a search strategy for your review: inclusion and exclusion criteria, search terms, databases to search. You may find it helpful to use PICO(S) or similar tool.
Complete your search, keeping records of the number of results and use these to populate a PRISMA flow chart.
Decide how you are going to critically appraise the papers which meet your inclusion criteria.