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MSK Advanced Practice Providers Resources

This guide is designed to provide library resources and information directed toward MSK's advanced practice providers.

Asking a Clinical Question

PICO(T) is a mnemonic that stands for:

PATIENT/PROBLEM/POPULATION

INTERVENTION

COMPARISON

OUTCOME

(TIME)

Are you working on a evidence based project or N-CARE project?
 
Use the PICO(T) format to frame your question.
  • Population/ Patient Problem: Who is your patient? (Disease or Health status, age, race, sex) / What is the problem?
  • Intervention: What do you plan to do for the patient? (Specific tests, therapies, medications)
  • Comparison: What is the alternative to your plan? (ie. No treatment, different type of treatment, etc.)
  • Outcome: What outcome do you seek? (Less symptoms, no symptoms, full health, etc.)
  • Time:  What is the time frame? (This element is not always included.)
 
Your PICO(T) question will fall under one of these types:
  • Therapy/Prevention
  • Diagnosis
  • Etiology
  • Prognosis

Finding the Evidence

Turning Search Terms into a Search

This easy-to-follow tutorial from the Librarians at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, in partnership with the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM), walks you through an example turning your search strategy into results. this is a detailed demonstration of using many of the basic and advanced features of PubMed.

Turning Search Strategy into Results

This easy-to-follow tutorial from the Librarians at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, in partnership with the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM), walks you through an example turning your search strategy into results. this is a detailed demonstration of using many of the basic and advanced features of PubMed.