1. What is your clinical question ? This should be relevant to nursing practice.

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1. What is your clinical question? This should be relevant to nursing practice. Do not develop a question related to medical therapy.

2. Write out your PICO based on your clinical question and identify separate components:

PICO question: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________­­____

Patient/Problem:

Intervention:

Comparison:

Outcome:

What type of EBP question is this (etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis)?

Explanation / Answer

PICO(T) is an important tool used in a professional practice to clarify the clinical question and to find the answer.

P -Patient/ Problem. what is the condition you need to research? what are the characteristics of the population? the need of consideration of age, gender, race etc.

I - Intervention. what are the plan of treatment and the duration?

C -Comparision. what is the alternative action of treatment?

O- Outcome. What are the potential outcomes? or there are any potential effects of the outcome. The outcomes should be measurable in order to assess the improvement of intervention.

Example of a PICO Question:

Does Hand washing among Nursing Professionals will reduce the hospital-acquired infections?

P-Problem Hospital-Acquired infection I-Intervention Hand washing of nurses before and after handling of the patient, and procedure. C-Comparison no hand washing, clean hands with paper towels, use of the non-alcoholic based solution. O-Outcome Reduced hospital-acquired infection.

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