PICO Widget
Example PICO:
Prevention
(O) of
Whooping Cough
(P) in
adults
(P) using
vaccination
(I)
Ovid Database:
Medline
Embase
Emcare
PsycINFO
All search terms must be present in my result set
P:
Patient, Population, Problem or disease of interest
(who are the patients, what is the problem)
Age:
All Infant (birth to 23 months)
All Child (0 to 18 years)
All Adult (19 plus years)
Newborn Infant (birth to 1 month)
Infant (1 to 23 months)
Preschool Child (2 to 5 years)
Child (6 to 12 years)
Adolescent (13 to 18 years)
Young Adult (19 to 24 years)
Adult (19 to 44 years)
Young Adult and Adult (19-24 and 19-44)
Middle Age (45 to 64 years)
Middle Aged (45 plus years)
All Aged (65 and Over)
Aged (80 and Over)
100 Childhood <birth to age 12 yrs>
120 Neonatal <birth to age 1 mo>
140 Infancy <age 2 to 23 mo>
160 Preschool Age <age 2 to 5 yrs>
180 School Age <age 6 to 12 yrs>
200 Adolescence <age 13 to 17 yrs>
300 Adulthood <age 18 yrs and older>
320 Young Adulthood <age 18 to 29 yrs>
340 Thirties <age 30 to 39 yrs>
360 Middle Age <age 40 to 64 yrs>
380 Aged <age 65 yrs and older>
390 Very Old <age 85 yrs and older>
Embryo <first trimester>
Infant <to one year>
Child <unspecified age>
Preschool Child <1 to 6 years>
School Child <7 to 12 years>
Adolescent <13 to 17 years>
Adult <18 to 64 years>
Aged <65+ years>
Gender:
Male
Female
Both genders
Ethnicity:
Disorder:
I:
Intervention or Issue
(what do we do to them, what are they exposed to)
Intervention / Issue
C:
Comparison intervention or issue
(what do we compare the intervention with)
Comparison
O:
Outcome
(what happens, what is the outcome)
Outcome/Risks
T:
Time
( The time it takes for the intervention to achieve an outcome or how long participants are observed)
Time