| Theme |
Facilitating clinical and nursing research in nephrology and dialysis |
| Title |
Clinical research methods |
| Author |
Masahiko Yazawa |
Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital |
| Author |
Yugo Shibagaki |
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine |
| [ Summary ] |
Clinical questions (CQ) are "simple questions" regarding patients with whom one is involved daily in clinical situations. They are a source of investigation for clinical research. Any research structured and developed into a practicable research plan is termed a "research question" (RQ). When developing CQs for RQs, their construction into PICO/PECO forms based on an EBM methods is advantageous in that a variety of problems may be solved. The most important points when developing RQ and PICO/PECO are insuring that the research relates to a feasible, interesting, novel, ethical, or relevant problem. RQ developed as such is rather straightforward. |