What are the characteristics of the patient or population?

PICOT Question: Management of Diabetes to prevent diabetes related complications
Patient, Population or Problem
1. What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
2. What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
Intervention or exposure
3. What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
Comparison
4. What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
Outcome
5. What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?
6. Ensure that the research question is answerable, feasible and clinically relevant

What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
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