Comparing patient characteristics, type of intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) queries with unguided searching: a randomized controlled crossover trial
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Comparing patient characteristics, type of intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) queries with unguided searching: a randomized controlled crossover trial.
BACKGROUND Translating a question into a query using patient characteristics, type of intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) should help answer therapeutic questions in PubMed searches. The authors performed a randomized crossover trial to determine whether the PICO format was useful for quick searches of PubMed. METHODS Twenty-two residents and specialists working at the Radboud Universit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1536-5050,1558-9439
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.2.010