Assignment: Case Patient Problem Intervention

Assignment: Case Patient Problem Intervention

Assignment: Case Patient Problem Intervention

Week 7 discussion Nursing Theory Applied to Research In NR 500, you developed a PICOT question. Select a nursing theory that you find useful in nursing practice. Discuss each of the following selected elements of the PICOT format by applying your selected nursing theory to the element. Be sure to include a scholarly reference. Population/ Patient Problem: Consider how your selected nursing theory may guide you in selecting the population and/or patient problem Intervention: Does your selected nursing theory identify a possible intervention? If not, how is your selected intervention consist with your selected nursing theory? Outcome: How would the outcome of your PICOT study contribute to your selected nursing theory? Would it add new information? Would it confirm some part of the theory?

This article is about the medical technique. For pico processes in Microsoft Windows, see Windows Subsystem for Linux § Development.
The PICO process (or framework) is a mnemonic used in evidence based practice (and specifically Evidence Based Medicine) to frame and answer a clinical or health care related question.[1] The PICO framework is also used to develop literature search strategies, for instance in systematic reviews.[2] The PICO acronym stands for[3]

P – Patient, Problem or Population
I – Intervention
C – Comparison, control or comparator[4]
O – Outcome(s) (eg. pain, fatigue, nausea, infections, death)
Alternatives such as SPICE and PECO (among many others) can also be used. Some authors suggest adding T and S, as follows:

T – Timing, duration or date of publication (eg. measured at 1-month of follow-up, published between 1990 and 2000)
S – Study type (eg. randomized controlled trial, cohort study,

Clinical question: “In children with headache, is paracetamol more effective than placebo against pain?”

Population = Children with headaches; keywords = children + headache
Intervention = Paracetamol; keyword = paracetamol
Compared with = Placebo; keyword = placebo
Outcome of interest = Pain; keyword = pain
Pubmed (health research database) search strategy: children headache paracetamol placebo pain