How to Capture Evidence?
Prompts to Add Evidence in EBNLab
At any of the 3 Stages of the EBNLab process, as you research, Discover, Develop and Define need statements it is valuable to record or 'Capture' the evidence which gives objective, verifiable, quantifiable and qualifiable validation to the respective Need Statement, or one of its component elements.
Adding Evidence to EBNLab
Whether you are crafting a Need Statement from an individual Problem, Population and Outcome, Drafting a Need Statement using the process for more experienced users, or Generating Multiple Need Statements using the Need Statement Generator, you will be prompted to add evidence. These prompts will be in the form of the 'Add more evidence' button shown here.
It is not mandatory to record evidence at every occasion, however a lack of evidence for any given Need Statement is itself evidence of a low level of validation, and as such impacts confidence in that Need Statement.
If you reviewing, scoring, assessing, or even prioritising a Need Statement throughout the EBNLab process, by using the 'Add Evidence' or 'Add More Evidence' buttons you will be able to access the window below to record your evidence.
The image above shows, on the left, the screen which will allow you to record the details of the evidence. The image on the right hand side is the same screen, showing the drop down menu, allowing you to select the method by which the evidence was collected.
The Table below provides guidance on how to capture evidence using this screen.
The scale of a research sample is a simple matter of selecting Small Medium or Large. This relative scale selection is not an objective measure of the number of enquiries which have been made, but is dependant on a number of factors, including the population size and the method of the research.
For Example, if interviews are carried out on a given population size, a smaller number of interviews could be considered a larger sample size than if a sample survey is carried out, when a larger proportion of the population would have to be covered to be able to claim a large scale to the research sample.
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