PESICO is used for questions about rehabilitation therapies.
| Person (and problem) |
- What are the defining characteristics of your person of interest? (e.g. age, gender, ethnic group)
- What have they been diagnosed with?
- What is their risk profile?
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| Environments |
- In which locations and situations does your person experience the issue they have been diagnosed with?
- Does the severity or impact vary between situations, or from location to location?
- Which aspects of these locations and situations are significant to the issue?
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| Stakeholders |
- Your person
- Who else will be involved in making decisions about this issue?
- Who else will be involved in helping to cope with this issue?
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| Intervention |
- What are you planning to do in response to the issue? (This is not limited to intervention or treatment. It could be another action such as diagnostic evaluation.)
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| Comparison |
- Which alternative treatment or diagnostic procedure are you going to compare your intervention with? (It's ok to leave this blank if you are not doing a comparison.)
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| Outcome |
- What are you hoping to achieve or avoid with your intervention or its alternative?
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Reference: Schlosser, R. W., & O'Neil-Pirozzi, T. (2006). Problem formulation in evidence-based practice and systematic reviews. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 33, 5-10. doi: 10.1044/cicsd_33_S_5 