Aslam Sadaf, Emmanuel Patricia
Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS. 2010 Jan;31(1):47-50. doi: 10.4103/0253-7184.69003.
Developing a researchable question is one of the challenging tasks a researcher encounters when initiating a project. Both, unanswered issues in current clinical practice or when experiences dictate alternative therapies may provoke an investigator to formulate a clinical research question. This article will assist researchers by providing step-by-step guidance on the formulation of a research question. This paper also describes PICO (population, intervention, control, and outcomes) criteria in framing a research question. Finally, we also assess the characteristics of a research question in the context of initiating a research project.
提出一个可研究的问题是研究人员在启动一个项目时遇到的具有挑战性的任务之一。当前临床实践中未解决的问题,或者经验表明需要替代疗法时,都可能促使研究者提出一个临床研究问题。本文将通过提供关于提出研究问题的逐步指导来帮助研究人员。本文还描述了在构建研究问题时的PICO(人群、干预措施、对照和结果)标准。最后,我们还在启动研究项目的背景下评估研究问题的特征。