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...

The internet enabled new forms of crowdsourcing by introducing electronic marketplaces for services that could hardly be traded before. Market places such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk install a member base for third parties, where they can offer small, highly structured paid tasks which can hardly be solved automatically with ICT which we call Pico-Jobs. In this paper a new method for systematic...

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Without a well formulated and structured question, it can be very difficult and time consuming for physicians to identify appropriate resources and search for the best available evidence for medical treatment in evidence-based medicine (EBM). In EBM, clinical studies and questions involve four aspects: Population/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), which are known as ...

architecture specifications Figure 3. PICO’s hierarchical design flow.

In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper we present a method that extends the language modeling approach to incorporate both document structure and PICO query formulation. We present an analysis of the distribution of PICO elements in medical abstracts that mo...

This study presents analysis of pico-hydro electrical power plant in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The objective of this study is to get a design of axial turbine pico-hydro electrical power plant. The method used the study of literature, survey the construction site of the power plant and the characteristics of the location being a place of study, analysis of hydropower ability and analyzing cost...

Colonoscopies are often performed in children for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Our study compared two bowel-cleansing solutions: sodium picosulphate, magnesium oxide, and citric acid (Pico-Salax) with liquid magnesium citrate as preparations for colonoscopy. A retrospective chart review of all patients seen in the Gastroenterology outpatient clinic and who underwent bowel cleansing in p...

Systematic reviews underpin Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) by addressing precise clinical questions via comprehensive synthesis of all relevant published evidence. Authors of systematic reviews typically define a Population/Problem, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome (a PICO criteria) of interest, and then retrieve, appraise and synthesize results from all reports of clinical trials that meet...