Define your Question Using PICO

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PICO Worksheet

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Define your Question using PICO
P	Describe your patient, population or problem (age, sex, race, past medical history, etc.), the disease, or main topic of your question.
I	What intervention or action are you considering – treatment, diagnostic test, etc. Is there a specific issue you’d like to investigate?	M e t h o d o l o g y	Which research method (quantitative or qualitative) should be used to answer the study question?     If experimental, what research design should be used to compare the intervention group with the comparison (or control) group?   randomized controlled trial cohort study case controlled studies case reports systematic reviews meta analysis editorials/expert opinions
C	Are you trying to compare or decide between two options – drugs, a drug and no medication or placebo, or two diagnostic tests? (Note: Your clinical question does not always need a specific comparison.)
O	What is the outcome you’d like to achieve? What are you trying to do for the patient? Relieve or eliminate the symptoms? Reduce the number of adverse events? Improve function or test scores?
State your Question resulting from PICO:

 

 

List keywords from your PICO question that can be used for your search.

 

 

 

 

List other criteria –gender, age, year of publication, or language to be used to limit your search.

 

 

 

Use the databases page from the Library website for suggestions.

 

 

 

 

List the databases you plan to search: i.e. CINAHL

Group Name:

Date:

PICO Worksheet

                                                                             Original            Revised

 

Define your Question using PICO
P	Describe your patient, population or problem (age, sex, race, past medical history, etc.), the disease, or main topic of your question.
I	What intervention or action are you considering – treatment, diagnostic test, etc. Is there a specific issue you’d like to investigate?	M e t h o d o l o g y	Which research method (quantitative or qualitative) should be used to answer the study question?     If experimental, what research design should be used to compare the intervention group with the comparison (or control) group?   randomized controlled trial cohort study case controlled studies case reports systematic reviews meta analysis editorials/expert opinions
C	Are you trying to compare or decide between two options – drugs, a drug and no medication or placebo, or two diagnostic tests? (Note: Your clinical question does not always need a specific comparison.)
O	What is the outcome you’d like to achieve? What are you trying to do for the patient? Relieve or eliminate the symptoms? Reduce the number of adverse events? Improve function or test scores?
State your Question resulting from PICO:

 

 

List keywords from your PICO question that can be used for your search.

 

 

 

 

List other criteria –gender, age, year of publication, or language to be used to limit your search.

 

 

 

Use the databases page from the Library website for suggestions.

 

 

 

 

List the databases you plan to search: i.e., CINAHL

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