By Mette Brandt Eriksen & Tove Faber Fransen
The systematic review The impact of patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) as a search strategy tool on literature search quality: a systematic review aimed to determine, if the widely used conceptualizing model, PICO (patient, intervention, comparison, outcome) affects the quality of a literature search, when used as a search strategy tool. The PICO model is often used to structure research questions that forms the basis for e.g. systematic reviews and in addition as a tool to develop search strategies. There are, however, no studies that have investigated, if the PICO model improves the quality of literature searches. … Continue reading Continue reading