Library Guides

• Evidence-Based Practice: PICO
  Includes information on PICO, question types, and study types (Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives).

• Step 1: Ask the Question > Question formation frameworks > PICO
  Includes other mnemonics/frameworks (Medical University of North Carolina).

• Ask 
  Information on What type of question? and What type of study? (University of Notre Dame, Australia)

Tutorial

• EBM PICO Tutorial - Forming a Clinical Question
  A self-paced tutorial from Boston University. Takes about 5 minutes.

Articles

• Cooke, A., Smith, D., & Booth, A. (2012). Beyond PICO: The SPIDER tool for qualitative evidence synthesis. Qualitative Health Research, 22(10), 1435-1443. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732312452938
  Looks at using PICO and SPIDER as tools to help in literature searching.
   
• Schlosser, R. W., Koul, R., & Costello, J. (2007). Asking well-built questions for evidence-based practice in augmentative and alternative communication. Journal of communication disorders, 40(3), 225–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2006.06.008
  Proposes PESICO as a template for asking a well-built EBP question.

Video

• PICO for Evidence-Based Medicine (University of Sydney) (2:08)
  Talks about PICO as a "mnemonic" for breaking a research question down into distinct concepts that can be used in searching