UM Nursing Research Partnership (NRP)

Target Audience: UMHS Nursing Community & UM SON
Author/Contact: Terri Voepel-Lewis    Last Reviewed: 10/28/08

"How To" Resources

• How to write a clinical question in Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) format:
  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Health Sciences Library
    The Well-Built Clinical Question
• How to Use Literature Searches:
  • University of Michigan Health Sciences libraries
    Nursing Research Guide (HSL Library)
  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Health Sciences Library
    The Literature Search
• How to Host a Journal Club:
  • Online - BNET: Business Network
    An introduction to nursing research through an OR nursing journal club
• How to appraise the quality of evidence:
  • Centre for Evidence Based Emergency Medicine
    Appraising Studies: An interactive guide in appraising research
  • Greenhalgh, T. (1997).  How to read a paper series. (how to read various types of research and understand statistics). BMJ: British Medical Journal
  • Public Health Resource Unit, National Health Services, UK
    Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): Appraisal Tools
    (Downloadable appraisal tools for: systematic reviews; randomised controlled trials; qualitative research studies; cohort studies; case control studies; diagnostic tool studies and economic evaluation studies.)
• How to Write an Abstract:
  • American College of Physicians
    Writing a Research Abstract
  • University of Southern California Norris Medical Library
    Evidence based medicine web tutorial
• How to Design a Poster Presentation:
  • From UM School of Nursing:
    • Poster Production and Printing Options (Word doc)
    • List of Local printers (pdf)
    • Poster template sample 1 (ppt)
    • Poster template sample 2
  • Effective Presentations (KU Medical Center)
• Do you need help collecting data? 
  Consider getting an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) student (UM)!
• For statistical help:
  please contact CSCAR at:  http://www.umich.edu/~cscar/
• For help with your Quality and Outcomes Research Project Design: