Download Pico Question Example Images. The pico process (or framework) is a mnemonic used in evidence based practice (and specifically evidence based medicine) to frame and answer a clinical or health care related question. Examples of picot questions are illustrated below.
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Examples of picot questions are illustrated below. Trainees should be taught that the pico question can be used to structure search terms and that the and or should be used in searches. Then it can become a foreground. For example, in the case of the patient taking glucosamine and chondroitin, we might ask background questions such as these: