The PICO concept will be established in the scholarly paper and presentation project to reflect a quality improvement perspective that you will present as a scholarly paper then converted to a group presentation.

                  PICO Format for Group Project Presentation

  • Patient, Population or Problem
    • What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
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    • What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
  • Intervention or exposure
    • What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
  • Comparison
    • What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
  • Outcome
    • What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?

The scholarly paper and presentation will have references from the various levels of evidence as described in the pyramid of empirical evidence presented by your professor as posted in ANGEL

                             Scholarly Paper & Presentation Content Sequence to Follow

                                 Scholarly Paper Sequence: Must be written in APA Format

                                 Paper will include the following in Sub-Headings: