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A well formulated question is key to making the process of searching for evidence efficient and valuable. An answerable question has four elements: the patient or problem; the intervention (test, treatment, care process); the comparison or alternative; the outcome or result of interest. You can place these elements in a table with four columns as shown on the slide.