title: Asking the right question and finding the right answers.
abstract: Clinical consultations generate questions that can be informed by published (and unpublished) evidence. This is the basis for evidence-based practice. Finding answers involves searching available electronic databases. We describe a method for rephrasing or 'framing' clinical questions into population, intervention, comparator and outcome terms that helps to determine the best type of study to search for, and aids in the design of search strategies.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Kidney Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia. nick.cross@cdhb.govt.nz
authors.forename: Nicholas B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Angela C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Webster
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009398:Nephrology; D012196:Review Literature as Topic