IP Skills: Library Training

— Patient Case — FIF — PubMed — Assignment —

Please read the case below and identify the Patient, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome.

You recommend to Judith, a 65-year-old patient you recently diagnosed with Type II Diabetes Mellitus, that she should purchase a home glucose meter to help improve glycemic control. Judith says that she isn’t sure that she wants a home glucose monitor. She mentions that her neighbor, who is also diabetic, found that a home glucose meter didn’t seem to help at all. Judith then asks you to find hard evidence that shows that the use of home glucose monitor is more effective than not using one to control her diabetes. You say you will get back to her before the end of the day.

We’ll discuss this as a group and use this case as an example as we search BU resources.