Hello, everyone. Could you please give me some examples of risk factors and prognostic factors and how to differentiate between the two? For example, having the breast cancer gene, having a family history of breast cancer, being a heavy smoker, etc. This is for PICO-writing. Thank you, Tanya Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/libraryarticles.html <http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/libraryarticles.html> formerly Tanya Feddern 305.243.6648 - [log in to unmask] - 305.325.9670 (fax) EBM Theme Co-Director & Reference and Education Librarian Louis Calder Memorial Library - University of Miami Miller School of Medicine "A library without a librarian is a reading room."-- Jenny Garcia of the University of Wyoming, MLS, AHIP