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Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence by
Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively. Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best methods for finding quality evidence. From deciding where to start, to building a search strategy, refining results and critical appraisal, it is a step-by-step guide to the process of finding healthcare evidence, and is designed for use by all health and social care professionals. This second edition has been expanded with new chapters on searching for sources to support evidence-based management decision making and how to better enable your patients to make informed choices. It has also been fully updated to include new web sources, open source reference management software, and new training resources and exercises. Searching Skills Toolkit is an ideal reference for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and decision makers, researchers and students.
ISBN: 9781118463093Publication Date: 2013
PICO Alternatives
PICO works best for quantitative questions related to interventions. If PICO isn't working for your question, one of these frameworks may be helpful:
- PEO (Population/Problem, Exposure, Outcome/Themes) (for qualitative questions)
- PFO (Population/Problem, Prognostic Factor, Outcomes/Themes) (for questions related to prognosis)
- CoCoPop (Condition, Context, Population) (for questions related to prevalence/incidence)
- CLIP (Client, Location, Improvement/Interest, Provider) (for questions related to cost effectiveness/service improvements)
Examples of PICO Searches
In adults with bladder cancer, are PD-L1 inhibitors or monoclonal antibodies more effective for improving survival?
Are children who use chewing gum more likely to develop dental caries than children who do not use chewing gum?
In adults with insomnia, is melatonin or zolpidem more successful in helping patients increase their hours of sleep?
PICO Help
- Forming QuestionsPICO templates and examples for therapy, etiology, diagnosis, prevention, and prognosis questions from McMaster University's Health Sciences Library.