Clinical Scenario 1
Currently every child who presents in the emergency room has a rectal temperature taken. Are other methods of temperature assessment as accurate as rectal temperatures?
Print this PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy to work through the basic steps of EBP.
Review a completed Worksheet to check to see how someone else worked through the problem. You may have used different resources and found different information, but that doesn’t mean you did it incorrectly. There are many variables that go into searching that will affect your retrieval.
You may find it helpful to ask yourself the following questions in evaluating your search:
- Was the information you found similar to that found on this worksheet?
- Using the Information Resources Pyramid, which resource provides the highest level of evidence?
- If you found several “answers” to your question, were they all in agreement? If not, why?
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