Title
Using PICO to Align Medical Evidence with MDs Decision Making Models.
Abstract
Modern medicine is characterized by an "explosion" in clinical research information making practical application of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), problematic for many clinicians. We have developed a PICO-(evidence based search strategy focusing on Patient/Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome)-based framework for (indexing and retrieving medical evidence and we posit that the use of PICO allows for organizing evidence that is aligned with an MD's decision making model. We describe a study where medical students evaluated our PICO-based approach and results show that students are eager to apply EBM but are hindered by a lack of specialist skills. Students reported that the PICO-based framework for organizing evidence provided an intuitive way of accessing and evaluating evidence and would be useful for their clinical tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1057
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evidence-Based Medicine,PICO,Information Retrieval
Decision-making models,Population,Data mining,Computer software,Alternative medicine,Knowledge management,Search engine indexing,Healthcare industry,Medicine,Evidence-based medicine,Evidence-based practice
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
192
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dympna O'Sullivan14511.29
Szymon Wilk246140.94
Wojtek Michalowski326641.48
Ken Farion410612.61