Abstract
Health care reform poses major challenges for psychiatric mental health care. Foremost among the challenges is a mandate for reimbursement based on performance-based outcomes. Clinicians can increase the efficiency of evidence-based practice searches by using the correct form of PICOT (population, intervention, comparator, outcome, time frame) question to focus the search, based on (a) diagnosis, (b) treatment, (c) prognosis, (d) etiology, (e) prevention, and (f) meaning. The correct form of a PICOT question focuses the literature search by requiring a minimum of sorting to find relevant studies. Quickly and effectively locating the critical evidence will help meet the performance standard mandates required by new health care reform legislation.
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