What are the characteristics of the patient or population? What is the condition or disease you are interested in? Intervention or exposure

Formulating the Research Question, Problem Statement, Research Purpose

What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
Intervention or exposure

What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
Comparison

What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
Outcome

What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?
Ensure that the research question is answerable, feasible and clinically relevant
The next step in Submissions Area will be to develop a research hypothesis from the research question.