Evidence-Based Practice Assignment: Chamberlain College of Nursing

Evidence-Based Practice Assignment -
Searchable Clinical Questions Form
Student Name: AM
Date: 08/05/2015
Directions: Please read the Evidence-Based Practice Guideline Rubric located in Doc Sharing, for instructions on how to complete this form.
1. Clinical Question:
Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question, using the PICO (T) format. Please type the question here:
In the hospitalized patient with a history of falls, what is the effect of using call bells on the reduction of recurrent falls compared with not using call bells?

2. Identify the PICO (T) Terms:
P- Patient’s with history of falls
I - Providing call bells
C- Not using call bell
O- Reduction of recurrent of falls
(T)- Not Applicable

3. Search: PubMed/MEDLINE
Go to MEDLINE at http://www.pubme44d.gov and conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:
Search Number
P
I
C
O
T
# of Results
Notes
1
Hospitalized patients with history of falls
Patients with history of falls

1184

632

I searched for the P, Hospitalized patients with a history of falls and clicked search
I searched for the P, but did not use the word “hospitalized” and I received fewer results.

2

providing call bells

35

12
I searched the I, providing call bells and by typing it into the search field and clicking search.
I also narrowed the field by using specific years from 2005 to 2015.
3

not using call bell

12
I cleared all fields and just searched for the C, not using call bells and clicked search yielding the same amount of results as search # 2.
4

reduction of recurrent falls

44
I clicked Clear and did an Advanced search for the O, I used #1, #2 and #3 to do a Boolean search using the operator AND. I clicked search and the results were 44 more than just doing a basic search and not using an operator such as AND.
5
Patients with history of falls providing call bells no using call bell reduction of