{"id":637,"date":"2015-12-18T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=637"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:50:52","slug":"evidence-based-medical-literature-search-in-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2015\/12\/18\/evidence-based-medical-literature-search-in-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Based Medical Literature Search in Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using PICO (T) as a guide to find medical literature in databases in Nursing and Allied Health Professions <\/strong><\/p>\n

What is PICO (T)?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

PICO (T) is an instrument used in medical and health research to help researchers formulate a question to get evidence based results.<\/p>\n

Using PICO (T) format as a tool where applicable can help to base question to begin the literature search.<\/p>\n

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P<\/strong> = Patient, Population, and\/or Problem<\/p>\n

I<\/strong> = Intervention<\/p>\n

C<\/strong> = Comparison<\/p>\n

O\u00a0<\/strong>= Outcome<\/p>\n

T<\/strong> = Type of Study or concept of time<\/p>\n

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