A PICOT question helps you clearly define the scope of your research efforts.
PICOT is an acronym describing the elements of a good clinical research question:
Described by disorder, age group, gender, ethnicity, race, etc.
What procedure are you studying? This could be a treatment method, behavior pattern, etc.
This might be current practice, an alternate treatment, doing nothing. It's what you're comparing against.
This is affected by the intervention. It's usually measurable, for example rate of infection, risk of injury, response to treatment, etc.
What time frame are you interested in? Sometimes you don't need to state this explicitly.
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