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AAP Grand Rounds 19:2 (2008)
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics

EMERGENCY CARE

Weighing the Evidence: PICO Questions: What Are They, and Why Bother?

Virginia Moyer, MD, FAAP
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In this month’s issue of AAP Grand Rounds, we introduce a new feature: the PICO question. PICO is an acronym that describes the elements of a well-formed clinical question. The structure includes:

"P" for the patient or problem

"I" for the intervention of interest

"C" for comparison, and

"O" for outcome.

For example, a parent might ask whether a single shot of a steroid would work as well as five days of oral steroids for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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