PICOT


Formulate a clinical question using the PICOT format.

P: Patient Population

I: Intervention or area on Interest

C: Comparison intervention or group

O: Outcome

T: Time

Ex: “In acute care hospitals (patient population), how does having a rapid response team (intervention) compared with not having a response team (comparison) affect the number of cardiac arrests (outcome) during a three-month period (time)?”

This question will be used as a project