On April 16, 2020, I gave a presentation to students from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Student Chapter at the University of Washington’s Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, & Economics (CHOICE) Institute. I reviewed some of the ways to think about a research topic, how to narrow the scope of the topic, and how to formulate a specific and testable research question. The presentation was meant to help students develop their own process for developing a good research question for their thesis.
I discussed the FINER criteria for formulating a research question
I also discussed the PICOT format of a research question.
The presentation is available on the CHOICE Institute’s blog: https://choiceblog.org/2020/04/27/best-practices-in-developing-research-questions/