Asking the Right Questions About Secondhand Smoke

Asking the right questions to ascertain early childhood secondhand smoke exposures.

Secondhand smoke is associated with a myriad of adverse health outcomes. Therefore, it is essential for clinicians to ask precise questions about exposures, particularly for children. We present 4 questions that incorporate several locations of exposure and provide a more comprehensive account of children's smoke exposures than maternal smoking alone.

Asking the Right Questions

• • Appreciate the importance of a clear and focused research question • • To be able to use criteria such as PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) to frame an answerable question • • Understand the need for primary and secondary questions and the process of refinement • • To understand what a hypothesis is and how it differs from the aims and objectives of a study • • Be aware o...

Asking the Right Questions

Lynn Arthur Steen Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science St. Olaf College [email protected] Assessment is about asking and answering questions. For students, “how am I doing?” is the focus of socalled “formative” assessment, while “what’s my grade?” often seems to be the only goal of “summative” assessment. For faculty, “how’s it going?” is the hallmark of within-course asse...

Asking the right questions about nutrient control in aquatic ecosystems.

E remains the greatest stressor affecting freshwater ecosystems across North America and Europe. However, over the past five years, the scientific literature has seen a resurrection of the debate over causes of eutrophication, with resulting confusion in management circles. This debate has been poorly defined, fractious, and oftentimes counterproductive. Eutrophication has been defined as the p...

Asking the Right Questions About Leadership: Discussion and Conclusions