Evidence Based Practice - Health Care  Tags: evidence-based medicine nursing dentistry physical_therapy psychology  

Different kinds of questions arise during clinical practice including questions about:

• Diagnosis
• Etiology
• Therapy/Prevention
• Prognosis
• Harm

The first step to finding answers is to formulate a clinical question.

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A well-built clinical question is directly relevant to patient care and helps guide searching for evidence-based answers. There are generally four components of a good clinical question and they are represented by the acronym PICO.

P - Patient, population or problem of interest

I - Intervention - therapy, diagnostic test, exposure, etc.

C - Comparison intervention, if relevant

O - Outcome(s) of interest

Click the link below to use the University of Toronto's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine tutorial for formulating clinical questions.