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Possible picot question?  Can you help me to improve the picot question below?  In Patients with h

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Possible picot question?  Can you help me to improve the picot question below? 

In Patients with hypertension (P), how does life style modification including diet and exercise(I ), compare to the use of medication only (C) reduce the incidence of hypertension. Not sure if should include time. 

 

PICOT Question and Search Strategy Template 

Use with this library guide: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Health Sciences.

Define your question using PICOT (review the “Create PICOT Questions” page as needed): 

 

Population:  ___________________________________________________________________

Intervention: ___________________________________________________________________

Comparison: ___________________________________________________________________

Outcome: ___________________________________________________________________

Time (optional): ___________________________________________________________________

 

Write out your question:  _______________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

 

Write down the most important words from your question in the gray boxes (the top row).  For each top term, add synonyms or related terms in the boxes below it.  All these are your search terms.
       
       
       
       
Review the “Best Bets” in the Nursing Databases list. Check the databases you will search:

__ CINAHL Complete (*Recommended)

__ Nursing & Allied Health

__ Public Health Database

__ Health & Medical Collection 

__ OVID Nursing Full Text Plus

­__ PubMed Central

 

Write in your first search below. Follow the instructions on the “Find EBP Articles” page.

 

 

 

 

 

Scholarly/peer reviewed                                 Limit publication date:   
Type of studies you want to include in your search: 

__ Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis 

__ Clinical Practice Guidelines 

__ Individual Research Studies 

__ Critically Appraised Research Studies

   
What information did you find to help answer your question? 

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This form is adapted from: Syrene A. Miller, PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy, National Center for Dental Hygiene Research.

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