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Asking the Question. The first step in research or evidence-based practice is defining a problem and asking a question . In the research process this becomes part of developing a proposal for a study. In the clinical setting, âasking a questionâ may become part of a research study, a quality improvement project, or lead to evidence based practice.
clinical. 1  1. pertaining to a clinic or to the bedside and therefore carried out on the living animal. 2  2. pertaining to or founded on actual observation and treatment of patients, as distinguished from theoretical or experimental. 3  3. productive of clinical signs; thus clinical disease as distinct from subclinical. clinical data storage storage of clinical data about patients; may be paper or computerized.