Post your background question and your strategy for getting a comprehensive understanding of the clinical issue. Your background question will lead you to your foreground or PICOT question--so it is an important piece of the project!
Your background question should answer the who, what, when, where, how, and why. With a clinical question, you will include the definition, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and conclusion. As an example, when I am thinking of background questions that I would like to answer for my topic of depression I would ask:
- How is depression defined and how is it diagnosed in primary care?
- What population is at the most risk for depression?
- What are some of the causes of depression?
- How is depression identified and treated?
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