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Framing Questions with PICO

Searching the biomedical literature can be confusing. Fortunately for you, there’s PICO. Popular in the evidence-based practice community, PICO helps to break a research inquiry down into its important concepts. From there, you can formulate the well-built, focused and answerable question that is the key to developing precise and successful literature search strategies.