IMRAD and PICO

Reading the latest issue of the Norwegian researcher’s magazine Forskerforum, I learned about PICO as an alternative model to the often used IMRAD approach to scientific writing. To summarize:

• IMRAD = Introduction, Method, research and Discussion
• PICO = Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome

It seems like PICO comes from clinical practice in medicine. Not sure if this helps music research that much, but I do like the structured approach to organising paper writing.