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Nursing 305: PICO

This guide was developed to introduce undergraduate nursing students to library database research techniques by incorporating actual hands-on exercises to increase student knowledge.

PICO

PICO Widget

Example PICO: Prevention (O) of Whooping Cough (P) in adults (P) using vaccination (I)

Ovid Database:

P: Patient, Population, Problem or disease of interest (who are the patients, what is the problem)

Age:
Gender:
Ethnicity:
Disorder:
I: Intervention or Issue (what do we do to them, what are they exposed to)
Intervention / Issue
C: Comparison intervention or issue (what do we compare the intervention with)
Comparison
O: Outcome (what happens, what is the outcome)
Outcome/Risks
T: Time ( The time it takes for the intervention to achieve an outcome or how long participants are observed)
Time