{"id":2162,"date":"2018-06-15T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=2162"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:30:05","slug":"ebd-pico-p9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/ebd-pico-tutorial\/ebd-pico-p9\/","title":{"rendered":"O is for Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h4>What is the Outcome?<\/h4>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/outcome.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"324\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The outcome is the hoped for effect of the intervention.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I recommend that patients use powered toothbrushes, they will remove more plaque.<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Outcome = Less Plaque<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h2>Case:<\/h2>\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 desired outcome in the case above.\u00a0<\/strong>[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\/ebd-pico-tutorial\/ebd-pico-p10\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Outcome? The outcome is the hoped for effect of the intervention. For example: If I recommend that patients use powered toothbrushes, they will remove more plaque.\u00a0Outcome = Less Plaque. Case: You meet your new patient Tracey, a thirteen year old female. She is an avid bubblegum chewer. Between bubbles, and after she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":2130,"menu_order":7,"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\/2162"}],"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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2162\/revisions\/4193"}],"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=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}