Overview
Your coding table included lists of themes extracted from your sources, and your conceptual map began to synthesize those themes by graphically depicting thematic relationships. Conclusion statements take your map’s synthesis one step further as they use words to describe thematic relationships across sources and implications for practice. Conclusion statements are narrative sentences or paragraphs that explain the correlations and meanings that can be derived from the thematic results and conceptual map. The conclusion statement should be a completely new idea or thought about your topic that is not presented in the published literature. Your conclusion statements should offer original insights that answer your review question and bridge the practice gap using your thematic analysis and conceptual map.
In this Assignment, you will develop a set of statements that integrate the main conclusions you have drawn from the body of literature as a whole. You will also explain how these conclusion statements relate to your review question and purpose.
To prepare:
- Review the IR Appraisal Results Log, themes, table, and conceptual map that you already completed.
- Review the example from the previous module on tables, conceptual maps, and conclusion statements.
- Consider how you might condense the information in all these documents into concise conclusion statements that relate directly to your study.
The Assignment: Conclusion Statements
- Develop a set of conclusion statements that synthesize the primary findings from your literature review. These statements should be 1–2 sentences that integrate the main takeaway messages from the body of literature you reviewed.
- Consider your original problem and the relationship to health care administrators.
- Think of this process as going from big to small. Right now, you have larger syntheses of material that you need to distill down into shorter, integrated statements about your findings across your body literature.
- Explain how your conclusion statements link back to your review question and purpose. What are some conclusions from your literature analysis that would help administrators address the problem?