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NURS 3030: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

STEP 1: Review Your PICOT Question

Identify the main concepts of your PICOT question.

  • The main concepts are words or phrases that will be essential to include as search terms when searching for evidence.
  • There may be some words in your PICOT question that will be unnecessary to include as search terms
  • When reviewing your PICOT question, it is important to identify only the main concepts of the P, I, and O

EXAMPLE: 

                                 

The main concepts identified in this question for the P, I, and O are:

  • community-dwelling
  • older adults
  • social support
  • loneliness
  • isolation

These concepts will then be used to develop search terms and a search strategy.