{"id":2152,"date":"2018-06-15T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=2152"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:29:08","slug":"ebd-pico-p7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/ebd-pico-tutorial\/ebd-pico-p7\/","title":{"rendered":"I is for Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h4>What is the Intervention?<\/h4>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/intervention.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"324\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The intervention is what you plan to do for your patient or patient group.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you might:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run tests<\/li>\n<li>Prescribe drug treatment<\/li>\n<li>Refer to a specialist<\/li>\n<li>Schedule sugery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3>Case:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/pico_ebd_case.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"123\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 2px 2px 2px 5px;\" \/>You meet your new patient Tracey, a thirteen year old female. She is an avid bubblegum chewer. Between bubbles, and after she provides her dental history, she asks, &#8220;Is it true that chewing bubblegum with Xylitol helps prevent cavities?&#8221; Determined to give Tracey the correct answer you promise that you will do some research and get back to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"break\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Please\u00a0think of a short statement identifying the intervention in the case above.\u00a0<\/strong>[You&#8217;ll refer back to your statement later in the tutorial]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/ebd-pico-tutorial\/ebd-pico-p8\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Intervention? The intervention is what you plan to do for your patient or patient group. For example, you might: Run tests Prescribe drug treatment Refer to a specialist Schedule sugery Case: You meet your new patient Tracey, a thirteen year old female. She is an avid bubblegum chewer. Between bubbles, and after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":2130,"menu_order":5,"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\/2152"}],"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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152\/revisions\/4191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}