Reveal and Planning

Reveal and Planning Instructions: Formulate one well-defined clinical question that will yield the most relevant and best evidence. This will be the question that will be used for the rest of the written assignments for this course. Describe the background of the question, present the question using the PICOT format, and why this is the question you have selected. The response length needs to be a minimum of 500 and maximum of 750 words. APA format must be used. I would like to use the topic below: PICOT Population – Ventilated patients Intervention – Oral care every 6 hours Comparison – Daily oral care Outcome – Reduction in ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) rates Time – During hospital stay in the ICU PICOT Question For ventilated patients, does oral care every 6 hours reduce the risk of ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) more than daily oral care during hospital stay in the ICU?