This document discusses formulating a clinical question using the PICOT format, which stands for Patient population, Intervention or area of interest, Comparison intervention or group, Outcome, and Time. An example is provided of a clinical question formulated using PICOT: "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)?"

1. Project Clinical
Clinical Question – Formulate a clinical question using the PICOT format.P: Patient
PopulationI: Intervention or area on InterestC: Comparison intervention or groupO:
OutcomeT: TimeEx: “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)?”