Clinical Assessment Tools: The Fresno Assessment Tool

The Fresno assessment tool


 * The Fresno assessment tool also measures medical professionals' EBP competence (skills and knowledge).
 * This consists of two clinical scenarios that include open ended questions. Participants are required to complete the four key steps of EBP process in order to adequately answer the open ended questions relating to the clinical scenarios.
 * The Fresno tool has been validated with medical residents and has shown to have good inter-rater reliability, since it requires expert knowledge to assess open ended answers. It is the only standardised, objective measure of EBP competence currently available, since it measures the participants' knowledge and skill across the four key EBP steps.


 * It requires the participant to demonstrate their knowledge, competence, performance and action across all four components to successfully demonstrate EBP competence. Although this tool assesses complete EBP competence, it is limited in its applications as it has only been developed for use in medicine. Therefore, it cannot be used to assess EBP competence in other health disciplines (e.g. nursing, allied health). (1)

References:

(1) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1472-6920-9-53?fbclid=IwAR1YLBlil2wixWHdK_rE0tQ75vGjrpLeHWziOrfe23AIPcgsYnOf4rnVquI