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ArticleChiropractic & manual therapies2016

'PICO-D Management'; a decision-aid for evidence-based chiropractic education and clinical practice.

Lyndon G Amorin-Woods, Barrett E Losco

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Article in Chiropractic & manual therapies, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. When there is little or no research evidence: a clinical decision tool.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lyndon G Amorin-WoodsSchool of Health Professions, Discipline of Chiropractic 90 South St Murdoch, Perth, 6150 Western Australia.
Barrett E LoscoSchool of Health Professions, Discipline of Chiropractic 90 South St Murdoch, Perth, 6150 Western Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVarious models and decision-making aids exist for chiropractic clinical practice.

results"PICO-D Man" (Patient-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome-Duration Management) is a decision-aid developed in an educational setting which field practitioners may also find useful for applying defensible evidence-based practice. Clinical decision-making involves understanding and evaluating both the proposed clinicalintervention(s) and the relevant and available management options with respect to describing the patient and their problem, clinical and cost effectiveness, safety, feasibility and time-frame.

conclusionsFor people consulting chiropractors this decision-aid usually requires the practitioner to consider a comparison of usual chiropractic care, (clinical management including a combination of active care and passive manual interventions), to usual medical care usually including medications, or other allied healthmanagement options while being mindful of the natural history of the persons' condition.

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PMID27999660
PMCPMC5151136

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