504-u5-a3: Evidence Based Medicine Systematic Review Clinical Question

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Introduction
When it comes to the medical field, good results are often a foundation for subsequent better outcomes in terms of healthcare and disease prevention or management. The ultimate goal of any medical process or treatment, is the realization of patient recovery or stabilization. For this to be realized, there is always a need to keep exploring and pursuing even better ways of various practices concerning treatment and prevention. It is this ability to fact-find better practices and new experiences which can be borrowed from both within and outside the field, that act as the motivation behind clinical studies. Research that incorporates not only the medical personnel but also the larger society, is crucial in ensuring that the solutions obtained are holistic. This also creates harmony between the two entities. Additionally such collaboration helps in actualizing or making the findings and recommendations of the research study relevant. It all goes down to a seamless collaboration between the main stakeholders in the sector.
Evidence Based Medicine and Practices
The decisions and policies made by healthcare personnel as well as patients, should be particularly informed or depend on the most accurate, reliable, and up to date piece of research findings. This brings to the fore the importance and applications of evidence based practices. Evidence-based medicine hinges on the combination or collaboration of personal medical experience and expertise, with additional outside findings that depend on a systematic review and patient expectations (Gopalakrishnan & Ganeshkumar, 2013). For example, physicians in primary care need a host of evidence for the purposes of their practice at the clinical level as well as policy and decision making in the public domain. Making of informed decisions is key since it simply works off the benefit of an earlier precedent set by previous research findings.
Due to the time factor and availability of extensive literature in the field of nursing and medicine in general, taking articles for review constitutes a primary method of performing evidence based practice. Additionally, considering the fact that most medical personnel are usually so busy to go through all these pieces of literature and synthesize them accordingly, their best alternative is usually systematic reviews (Gopalakrishnan & Ganeshkumar, 2013).The use of systematic reviews has therefore increased flexibility and convenience for the ever-busy medical environment.
The increased need for evidence-based practices in the healthcare sector has been as a result of the increased need for the latest scientific practices incorporated into the system. This is because of the obvious doubts over the underlying threat of limited knowledge by the physicians or responsible personnel in charge. To frame, assess, allocate, repeat and evaluate a question according to the requirement is a process in all the Evidence-Based models. Carrying out a PICOT analysis is one such instance . PICOT stands for P (Problem or Population or Patient), I (Intervention or Indicator), C (Comparison), O (Outcome) and T (Time). The last element, time, however, is optional. This paper is a practical app...