Telehealth Assessment Approach to Patient Care
Below is the guideline to provided for the abstract. An abstract is written after approval of the synthesis paper. The abstract provides an opportunity for the candidate to disseminate the knowledge effectively. An abstract is a succinct description of the synthesis paper and must be understandable to a wide audience. The abstract for CGP should be no more than 350 words, single-spaced, using size 12 Times New Roman. There should be no list of references in the abstract. The abstract is suggested to include following components: 1. Title. 2. Author and credentials. 3. Authors affiliations. College of Nursing, SUNY Upstate Medical University 4. PICO question. 5. Background/ Significance. Describe a clinical problem, its background information and the rationale of why it is a problem/ issue. It sets the context and answer the question “So what?” 6. Analysis. Briefly describe the literature search process, such as the keywords, database, inclusion and exclusion criteria. This section should not be a major focus of the abstract and the poster. 7. Discussions. Briefly summarize how many articles were found in each search and why the final articles were chosen. Then describe the synthesized results, the clinical implications of the findings, and recommendations. This is what most people want to know and should be the focus of the abstract. 8. Keywords. List 3-5 keywords from your paper in your abstract. This helps researchers find your work in databases.
