Project: Promoting Health Care QualitySection 3: Quality Measurement and AssessmentMeasuring and assessing quality provides a foundation for identifying needs for improvement, developing effective int

NURS 6231 Healthcare Systems and Quality Outcomes

Course Project: Process Improvement Project

Evidence Matrix

Part I: Search Strategy

Using the Walden Library and other appropriate databases, locate 10 scholarly articles that pertain to your selected quality improvement issue.

Step 1: Identify the resources that you have utilized or will utilize to find articles that pertain to your topic.

Electronic Databases	Research or Professional Organizations	Experts in the field to consult	Books, encyclopedias, handbooks

Step 2: Identify search terms and criteria.

Step 3: Identify Boolean search strings.

Part II: Analysis of Literature

Step 1: Summarize 10 articles that you selected from your research efforts, completing the table below.

Summary Table of Analyzed Articles (you may determine your own headings)
Citation	Conceptual Framework/ Theory	Main finding	Research method	Strengths of study	Weaknesses	Level of Evidence

Step 2: Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of existing literature.

Step 3: What gap exists in the current literature? Explain.

Step 4: What strategies that address your quality improvement issue are suggested by current literature? Synthesize the evidence.