Question Templates for Asking PICO(T) Questions:
P: Population/disease ( i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, with a certain disorder)
I: Intervention or Variable of Interest (exposure to a disease, risk behavior, prognostic factor)
C: Comparison (could be a placebo or "business as usual" as in no disease, absence of risk factor, Prognostic factor B)
O: Outcome (risk of disease, accuracy of a diagnosis, rate of occurrence of adverse outcome)
T: Time (time it takes to demonstrate an outcome - e.g. the time it takes for the intervention to achieve an outcome or how long participants are observed.
Note: Not every question will have an intervention (as in a meaning question) or time (when it is implied in another part of the question) component.
