How do I associate a PICO question with a recommendation?

Before you start writing your recommendation's key information, the rationale and eventually the recommendation itself, you should select the PICOs/Evidence profiles that you will make the recommendation from.

When clicking on a recommendation the first that you get to see is the 'Research evidence' tab that let's you choose your Evidence profiles. The Evidence Profiles you can choose amongst, are the ones you have made in the Evidence profile view.

You can choose as many PICO questions/Evidence profiles as you want, but if you are making a recommendation for one patient group make sure all the PICOs match that patient group. (in the cases you are not using indirect data)

To add a PICO, click "Select PICO"

You have 3 choices of seeing the PICOs:
- Only from the same section
- All the PICOs from the entire guideline
- Selected: shows only the ones you have already selected

To select PICOs for your recommendation, tick off in the box in front of the PICO. 

To view the content of the PICO, like the evidence profile or summary, click anywhere on the PICO row or click on 'summary". Click any option in the row again to hide the content.

Last Updated: 13 August 2026