Question

PICO Question Exercise-Instructions: Look at the following actual clinical questions and analyze them as follows:

Try to find the EBP components of PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome): Write final question in PICO form.

You are working in a family practice clinic and notice some of the nurses take the patients’ blood pressures 5 minutes after they arrive to their assessment room and some of the nurses wait 15 minutes. You start to wonder if there really is a difference?

Answer 1

#. EBP components of PICO in this case :-

Population - Patients of family practice clinic

Intervention - Measuring blood pressure

Comparison - Blood pressure measured within 5minutes after arriving their assessment room is compared with the blood pressure measured within 15minutes after arriving their assessment room .

Outcome - Their would be no difference in the blood pressure measured within 5minutes and 15minutes as the nurse's waiting time does impact the measurements.