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Communication Skills for Biosciences by For the Group Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Paper, the PICO format must be followed. The components of this format are as follows: P=the patient population being studied, I=the intervention or therapeutic approach, C=the comparison made between the intervention and an alternative therapy, and O=the outcome or effect of the intervention.
A possible topic for a paper might be whether or not non-pharmacological treatments are effective in treating dysphagia in patients with Parkinson's disease. In this case, P=patients with Parkinson's disease, I=non-pharmacological treatments, C=pharmacological treatments (e.g. the use of the drug levodopa), and O=the effect on dysphagia.
Library Links in Google Scholar
Before starting a search in Google Scholar, you can change the settings so that you will access articles to which your institution subscribes.
1. Once in Google Scholar, click on the menu icon in the top left-hand side of the screen. From the menu that appears, choose Settings.
2. On this page, click on Library Links in the menu on the left-hand side of the page.
3. Enter your university in the search box and do the search. For UMB, enter Health Sciences and Human Services. Your school should appear in a list below the search box. Check that box and click save.
4. This will then take you back to the search page on Google Scholar. When you do a search, the FindIT button should appear next to articles to which you have access. You only need to set this up once, not every time you go int to Google Scholar.
Cited Reference Searching
You can find related and more recent articles and resources in Google Scholar by clicking on "Cited by," located below an article or e-book of interest.
Primary research articles are primary literature sources. They present original findings and are published in peer-reviewed journals.
They are structured to show methods, results, and conclusions and are designed so that other researchers can attempt to replicate the results they report.
This brief video from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help you determine whether or not your article is a primary research article.
