Clinical Audit on Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Non-pregnant Females

Order Description
Educational aim(s) of the assessment:
(i) To produce a high quality assignment demonstrating that you are able to produce a clinical audit.

Assessment Instructions
Your assessment shouldinclude the following:

• Abstract (250 words) – Introduction-(what an audit is), Methods, Results, Conclusions 10%
• Introduction/Background (what your audit is about) 5%
• Aims 5%
• Literature review (1000 words) 15%
• Methods – including design, rationale for design, ethics decisions and rationale, public health implications 15%
• Data governance and data collection 5%
• Results/Data/Outputs 5%
• Discussion 20%
• Summary and Conclusions 15%
• References 5%

Specific guidance for the literature review is below:

Literature review:
• Background – what disease or scientific area are you studying, and why was that chosen as your priority area for the health of the public? This should discuss the
public health impact of the disease: the extent to which it impacts upon the health of the general public in terms of morbidity, mortality, incidence and prevalence.

• Audit question

• Search methods – explaining how and where you searched, evidence of having planned your search, which search techniques you used and why, detailing your specific
article inclusion/exclusion criteria, how many articles you found in each source, any modifications you made in your strategy as you went along. As part of this
assignment you should include your search methodology; this should document your search so that someone else can reproduce your steps and obtain the same results. You
should complete the blank search activity template (appendix 1). The following page from the University Library has useful information to help you:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher-literature-search-documenting (Template is last page of this document)

• Review of the selected literature including (but not restricted to) critical appraisal of five papers, identified by you as most relevant and of high quality. The
review may include guidelines, but must include critical review of original research, such as the clinical and methodological strengths and weaknesses of the
literature studied.

• Synthesis of whole literature studied, including knowledge gained in relation to:
o Your audit question
o Amount of good research in this area compared to the health need
o Your data collection form