PICOT QUESTION

Clinical Question - Formulate a clinical question using the PICOT format.

P: Patient Population

I: Intervention or area on Interest

C: Comparison intervention or group

O: Outcome

T: Time

Use one of the interventions below.

Early patient ambulation post-surgery or the use of incentive spirometer.

Please note your intervention must be evidence base researched.

See this example(do not use this for this project)

Example: "In acute care hospitals (patient population), how does having a rapid response team (intervention) compared with not having a response team (comparison) affect the number of cardiac arrests (outcome) during a three-month period (time)?"