Knowing how to form a PICO (T) question helps you get the evidence to support best practices, you use the question to:
Focus the scope of your issue to get relevant results
Develop keywords that will help you search the evidence
Get more manageable results with a focused search strategy
Saves time
Ask: Write a focused Clinical Question PICO(T)
PICO (T) - the acronym to help format to break down your question into smaller parts and identify keywords:
P Patient/Population/Problem
I Intervention
C Comparison/Control
O Outcome
T Time/Type of Study or Question
More information - PICO (T)
Patient/Population - Who are the relevant patients? Think about age, sex, geographic location, or specific characteristics would be important to your question.
Intervention - What is the management strategy, diagnostic test, or exposure that you are interested in?
Compare/Control - Is there a control or alternative management strategy you would like to compare to the intervention?
Outcome - What are the patient relevant consequences of the intervention?
Time/Type of Study or Questions - What time periods should be considered? What study types are most likely to have the information you seek? What clinical domain does your question fall under?
