The art of question building A key skill for evidence based practice is the ability to develop questions that can be answered using research evidence.
Some questions only require the use of three parts.
Refer to the teaching plan for practice exercises. This file contains the PICO headings - Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome. In 'Evidence Based Medicine' , Sackett et al. identify a range of categories of practice that practitioners can ask EBP questions about. The medical terminology used by Sackett et al. to label these categories can be off putting to non-medical clinicians. In the pages below the headings have been rewritten using non-medical terminology.