Depending on the type of research you are interested in, whether it's clinical, evidence-based, or lab/bench research, each type requires a slightly different approach to searching databases. It begins with how to choose a topic.
Asking a focused clinical question using the pneumonic PICO (T) as it is a helpful approach to summarizing the literature that explores the effect of a specific therapy.
I'm a nurse at BAIC and many of my breast cancer patients want to know if scalp cooling will really work to reduce the amount of hair loss during their treatment. I would like to conduct a search to determine whether scalp cooling is an effective intervention to prevent hair loss in breast cancer patients undergoing treatment.
In breast cancer patients, does scalp cooling decrease the amount of hair loss, during active cancer treatment?
A research question should be clear and focused, where you can then draw upon multiple sources to present your argument.
I'm a clinical fellow in the ICU and I was asked to do a Grand Rounds presentation on how to identify and treat CAR-T therapy toxicities in the ICU.
How do CAR-T toxicities present in critically ill cancer patients and what are the best practices to treat these patients.
