Searching the Resource

The following example search was conducted in December, 2007 using DynaMed.

PICO:	Our Question:	Search Terms:
Patient Population	ischemic stroke, without dysphagia, elderly	stroke
Intervention	oral protein energy supplements
Outcome	primary: reduce mortality; secondary: reduce serious disability risk over time

 

Step 1:
Type into the Find Box the term: stroke and click Browse Topic:

 

Step 2:
Click the topic Stroke (acute management) since our patient is hospitalized with a stroke:

 

Step 3:
Results screen for Stroke (acute management). Click Treatment on the left menu column since our clinical question is about therapy:

 

Step 4:
On the results screen for Treatment DynaMed presents a conclusion about oral nutritional supplements based on a (level 1 [likely reliable] evidence) study published in Lancet:

 

We now go to Reviewing Search Results