Now that you've had a chance to review some of the elements of well-formulated question, it's time to see how it all comes together:
Practice Scenario
You have an otherwise healthy patient who is, unexpectedly, 10 weeks pregnant. She is concerned that having not taken prenatal vitamins, specifically folic acid, there will be an increased risk of neural tube defects. You want to review the most recent evidence before you give her an opinion.
Once we've done a bit of background research, we likely have a better sense of our main question. To help refine what we'd like to know, we'll use the PICO framework to identify some key concepts.
Population/Patient |
Intervention |
Comparison/Control |
Outcome |
|
Healthy women, |
Supplemental folic acid |
- |
Neural tube defects |
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Contact us here if you need help constructing your research question.
Now that you have your question, you are ready to move on to Step 2. There we'll look at the breadth of evidence sources available to search and how to match your question to a likely evidence source.
