Assignment on PICO Drafting

Assignment on PICO Drafting

Patient, population or problem: Describe your patient, population or problem (age, sex, race, past medical history, etc.), the disease, or main topic of your question.

Intervention: What intervention or action are you considering – treatment, diagnostic test, etc. Is there a specific issue you’d like to investigate?

Comparison: 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.)

Outcome: 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?

Assignment on PICO Drafting

Methodology

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?

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o          randomized controlled trial

o          cohort study

o          case-controlled studies

o          case reports

o          systematic reviews

o          meta-analysis

o          editorials/expert opinions

Assignment on PICO Drafting

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.

Assignment on PICO Drafting

Patient, population or problem: Describe your patient, population or problem (age, sex, race, past medical history, etc.), the disease, or main topic of your question.

Intervention: What intervention or action are you considering – treatment, diagnostic test, etc. Is there a specific issue you’d like to investigate?

Comparison: 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.)

Outcome: 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?