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Allied Health Information Resources

This guide presents Allied Health research resources accessible through Ascension Seton.

Research

The PICO Model is a format to help define your information need into a clinical question prior to starting one's research. It is an acronym, and each part of the PICO is a key concept in a clinical question

P - Patient/Problem/Population: How would you describe the patient or problem? This could include gender, age, disease, etc.

I - Intervention: What change or difference are you applying? Interventions could include medications, surgeries,

C - Comparison: What are you comparing your intervention to? This could be an alternative intervention or even a placebo. The comparison might not be necessary in all PICO questions.

O - Outcome: What are you trying to accomplish or measure?

Using parts of the PICO question as search keywords can help build a quality search query to find the best evidence-based information.

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