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PICO Strategy for Bed Sores in Elderly

This document outlines the steps to develop a search strategy to answer a clinical question using the PICO framework. It defines the question as investigating interventions to reduce bed sores in elderly care residents. Main topics for searching are identified as bed sores, pressure ulcers, elderly, and aged people. Search limits are age and sources include systematic reviews, individual studies, and clinical guidelines from databases like Cochrane Library and CINAHL.

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PICO Strategy for Bed Sores in Elderly

This document outlines the steps to develop a search strategy to answer a clinical question using the PICO framework. It defines the question as investigating interventions to reduce bed sores in elderly care residents. Main topics for searching are identified as bed sores, pressure ulcers, elderly, and aged people. Search limits are age and sources include systematic reviews, individual studies, and clinical guidelines from databases like Cochrane Library and CINAHL.

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PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy

1. Define your question using PICO: Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome.  
 
Population:   elderly or aged 

Intervention:  bedsores, pressure ulcers 

Comparison:   None 

Outcome:  reduction in incidence and severity of bed sores 

 
2. Write out your question:  What interventions reduce the incidence and severity of 

bed sores in residents of aged care facilities? 

3. List the main topics and terms from your question that you can use to search.  
 
bed sores        aged people 

  pressure ulcers      elderly 

4. Check any limit that may pertain to your search:  
 
X  Age __ Language  __ Year of publication  
 
5. Type of study/publication you want to include in your search: (From Step 2 of tutorial)  
 
X Systematic Review or Meta‐Analysis  X Individual Research Studies  
X Clinical Practice Guidelines   __ Electronic Textbooks 
X Critically Appraised Research Studies  
   
 
6. Check the databases you searched:  
X Cochrane Library  X CINAHL with Full Text 
X Joanna Briggs   __ PubMed Clinical Queries  
   
 
7. What information did you find to help answer your question?  
 
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This form is adapted from: Syrene A. Miller, PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy, National Center for Dental Hygiene Research 

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