{"id":2044,"date":"2018-06-15T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=2044"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:18:05","slug":"ebm-pico-p8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/ebm-pico-tutorial\/ebm-pico-p8\/","title":{"rendered":"C is for Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h3>What is the Comparison?<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/comparison.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"324\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In general most, but not all, clinical questions have a comparison. A comparison is the alternative that you want to compare to your intervention.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>aspirin<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>as effective in preventing strokes as<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>warfarin<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Is<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>chicken soup<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>as effective as<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>bed rest<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>in treating a cold?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3>Case:<\/h3>\n<p>You examine a five-year old Asian American female, Junko Morioka, in your office and determine that she is suffering from Acute Otitis Media. Her mother mentions that Junko seems to get these ear infections every once in a while and that sometimes they &#8216;just go away&#8217; and other times Junko seems to need antibiotics. Junko&#8217;s mother is worried about Junko developing a resistance to all these antibiotics and wonders aloud if antibiotics are really necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"break\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Please think of a short statement identifying a potential comparison in the case above.<\/strong><br \/>\n[You&#8217;ll refer back to your statement later in the tutorial]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/ebm-pico-tutorial\/ebm-pico-p9\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Comparison? In general most, but not all, clinical questions have a comparison. A comparison is the alternative that you want to compare to your intervention. For example: Is\u00a0aspirin\u00a0as effective in preventing strokes as\u00a0warfarin? Is\u00a0chicken soup\u00a0as effective as\u00a0bed rest\u00a0in treating a cold? Case: You examine a five-year old Asian American female, Junko Morioka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":2001,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15145,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044\/revisions\/15145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}