Question

• Describe a significant nursing clinical issue, topic of interest, or practice problem that is important to you. Describe why you chose the problem/topic.
• Write your clinical question in the PICO(T) format for your nursing practice problem.

Answer 1

The PICO process is a mnemonic used in evidence based practice to frame and answer a clinical or health care related question. The PICO framework is also used to develop literature search strategies, for instance in systematic reviews.

PICO format

The PICO(population, intervention, control, and outcomes )format Table1 is considered a widely known strategy for framing a foreground research question.

PICOT

Patient/population :who are the relevant patients. Think about age, sex, geographic , location, or specific characteristics that would be important to your question.

Intervention /Indicator : what is the management strategy , diagnostic test, or exposure that you are interested in.

Control :Is there a control or alternative management strategy you would like to compare to the intervention or indicator.

Outcome :what are the patient relevant consequences of the intervention.

Time /Type of study or Question : What time periods should be considered? What study types are most likely to have the information you seek? What clinical domain does your question under?

Example :

In adult patients with total hip replacement (population ).how effective is pain medication( intervention. )

Compared to aerobic stretching (comparison )

In controlling post operative pain (outcome )

During the perioperative and recovery time (Time).