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Evidence Based Medicine - UIC Library - University of Illinois at Chicago

Formulating Patient Centered Questions

Defining a clinical question in terms of the specific patient problem aids the searcher in finding clinically relevant evidence in the literature.

P.I.C.O. Model for Clinical Questions

Patient, Population, or Problem

How would I describe a group of patients similar to mine?
Intervention, Prognostic Factor, or Exposure

Which main intervention, prognostic factor, or exposure am I considering?

Comparison or Intervention (if appropriate)

What is the main alternative to compare with the intervention?

Outcome you would like to measure or achieve

What can I hope to accomplish, measure, improve or affect?

What type of question are you asking?

Diagnosis, Etiology, Therapy, Prognosis, Prevention, Harm

Type of study you want to find

What would be the best study design/methodology?

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PICOmaker is a free Palm OS-based application that lets users create and store queries in the PICO format for later reference. This application, made available by the University of Alberta Libraries, is intended to assist students and clinicians with evidence based practice. For downloading and installation, please visit http://www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/pico/

This page is maintained at www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebm.shtml by Jo Dorsch, UIC Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria. Please send comments to Jo Dorsch jod@uic.edu.

Last updated: Friday, 01-Apr-2005 10:51:20 CST
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