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Cohort Research Question

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Patrick Anderson SID: 44010226.

Nurs6008: Framing a research question.

Research Question

Are patients who present to ED, then leave without being seen by a physician at greater risk of experiencing an adverse outcome in the 7 days following presentation, compared to patients to who are seen and discharged?

The question was formulated using the following PICOT structure.

Population = Patients who present to ED.
Indicator = Leaving without being seen by a physician.
Comparison = Patients presenting to ED who are seen and discharged.
Outcome measured = Adverse patient outcomes.
Time = 7 days following presentation.

Proposed study design

A cohort study would be most appropriate to address this question, as a cohort study compares large populations …show more content…

Databases and Keywords.

I have determined that Cinhal via ebsco is an appropriate database to search to systematically review the current literature on this topic, it is appropriate as it is focuses on nursing and allied health literature, allows narrowing search results by language, source type and date of publication.

Additionally I have found Medline via OvidSP to also be appropriate, this database compliments the literature available on Cinhal by including medical and a greater number of multidisciplinary sources, furthermore Medline offers an extensive range of search narrowing facilities, such as allowing searches of both title, abstract and text body.

I will use the same keywords for both databases as I have found them equally effective on either, my selected keyword and keyword combinations are as follows.

“Without being seen”
“Without being seen” AND “Adverse”
“Without being seen” AND

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