Case:BB (52-year-old female) tells you that she read about age-related macular degeneration in a...

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Case:BB (52-year-old female) tells you that she read about age-related macular degeneration in a newspaper article. BB is worried that she may develop the condition and wants to prevent it any way she can. BB noted that directly beside the article about age-related macular degeneration was an advertisement for nutritional supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin. She wants to know if taking a nutritional supplement containing lutein and zeaxanthin will reduce her chances of developing age-related macular degeneration.Scenario:A patient enters your place of work. They ask if an intervention or therapy has evidence to support its use for a particular condition.Create a PICOS, conduct a search strategy, critically appraise the literature and respond to the patient.Write up the process you followed in a report.Your report should include:· All steps undertaken in your search strategy to answer the patients question (development of a clinical question using PICOS framework, online search strategy). (approx. 1/2 page)· Critical appraisal of the evidencegathered(primary studies ONLY) (1 page)· Recommendation to the patient (one paragraph)· Reference appropriately (vancouver)· There is no page limit for the appendix.

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REPORT
Table of contents
Search strategy	3
Critical appraisal	4
Recommendations	4
References	5
Macular degeneration is an eye retina based disease that makes an effect on eyesight. This disease can be seen mostly in older, peoples who are above 50. This makes problems observe thighs, writing, reading, driving, and color observation too (1). The age-related macular degeneration happens due to age, the lack of physical activities, and the lower flexibilities of the eye macules work default with increasing of age. As the old woman is already 52 of age so that she already feels the vision problem.
Search strategy
At first, listening to the statements and problems from the patient and then focusing on the main topic we research in any way. We research the related books, search in database Wikipedia, and collect information from the internet. Gathering the information the further steps of the research have been conducted based on the questions that are asked to the patient according to the PICOS framework (2).
Some personal as well as methodical questions and details such as name, demographic location, age, work, physical or mental health status, etc. are being asked to the patient.
A certain ability to do exercise is also being asked. What kind of medication does the patient want? And the demand of the patient regarding the health treatment outcomes is also being asked. Based on the patient’s physical and mental ability the overall study has been done.
Some frequent questions are generally asked by the patient mentioned below:
Q: What are the reasons for macular degeneration?
Q: can it increase with age?
Q: What type of treatment she should be provided?
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Case: BB (52-year-old female) tells you that she read about age-related macular degeneration in a newspaper article. BB is worried that she may develop the condition and wants to prevent it any way...

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