This guide will provide resources you can use specifically for Professor Sciscione's NU512 course Nursing Research for Advanced Nursing Practice.
The library session handout below has tips to help you find articles for this course.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have.
Patient/problem: describe the patient and problem
Intervention: What do you want to do for the patient? (medication, surgery...)
Comparison: What is the main alternative to the intervention?
Outcome: What do you expect to accomplish, measure, improve?
Clinical question is:
In patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, is bariatric surgery more effective than standard medical therapy at increasing the probability of remission of diabetes?
It is a therapy question, and the best evidence would be a randomized controlled trial (RCT). If we found numerous RCTs, then we might want to look for a systematic review.
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Clinical Question |
Search Strategy |
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Patient/Problem |
Obese, diabetes type 2 |
Diabetes type 2, obesity |
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Intervention |
Stomach stapling (gastric bypass surgery; bariatric surgery) |
Bariatric surgery |
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Comparison |
Standard medical care |
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Outcome |
Remission of diabetes; weight loss; mortality |
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Type of question |
Therapy |
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Type of study |
RCT |
Clinical query – therapy/narrow Or Limit to randomized controlled trial as publication type |
