“What is the role of empiric therapeutic anticoagulation for patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19?“.
with the following:
1. Provide at least three specific questions that could help provide you additional information to answer your question; These questions must be specific to the question asked (“Who is the patient?” will not be accepted, only first 3 questions evaluated)
2. Search strategy – Identify the search strategy you believe would be the best to answer your question; Must use at least two different resources (including primary, secondary, tertiary), and at least one of these must be a primary resource (primary = original work – case reports, observational studies, clinical trials
3. Provide your answer to the question – be concise; 250 words maximum
4. Literature summary – summarize the information from each resource you choose; For the primary literature source you used, provide a critique of the information (strengths and weaknesses identified in reference source used, study design, whether the results can be applied to your question etc)
5. References: Cite your references using AMA format provided on Bb (ICMJE AMA Citation reference
6. Do not copy and paste, and never do the plagiarism, please paraphrase, and make sure you are doing right reference with AMA
format.
7. You should be familiar with searching Drug related primary resources through PubMed, Micromedex and so on while using MeSH terms.
*Guidance for specific types of questions
• General questions – Provide an overview of the medication and disease state. Maker sure your “answer” actually answers the question that was asked.
• Role of medication in a certain disease state – Provide the mechanism of action of the medication in that disease state
• DDI questions – Differentiate between potential relevance of DDI and clinical relevance (Does the DDI result in something that matters clinically?)
