EBP
Asking the Question
Types of Clinical Questions
Hierarchy of Evidence
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A clinician's cumulated experience, education and clinical skills. 

What is clinical expertise?

100

P.I.C.O or P.E.C.O

What are the components of a clinical question?
100

Examines the effectiveness of a particular intervention in improving outcomes in patients suffering from a particular health condition?  Interventions may include medications, surgical procedures, exercise, alternative therapies or lifestyles changes.

What is a Therapy question?

100

The ranking of different research or evaluation study designs based on the rigor of their research methods.

What is a Hierarchy of Evidence?

100

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What is the Fleur-de-lis?

200

Any fact, information or data provided by a research study. The evidence may be generated from any type of research study utilising any type of research methodology

What is research evidence?
200

The most important factor of a clinical question. 

What is "answerable"?

200

Explores the effectiveness of an intervention or exposure in reducing the risk of morbidity (onset of disease) and mortality? Similar to treatment questions. When assessing preventive measures, it is particularly important to evaluate potential harms as well as benefits.

What is a Prevention question?

200

The most reliable level of evidence  the hierarchy of evidence pyramid

What is a well done systematic reviews, with or without an included meta-analysis?

200

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300

Part of the clinical decision-making process that focuses on individual characteristics, such as gender, race/ ethnicity, affectional status and socioeconomic indicators

What are Patient Values?

300

A question increases the chances of finding the best available evidence to inform clinical decision-making

What is a well-structured PICO question?

300

Examining the ability of a test or procedure to differentiate between those with and without a condition or disease?

What is a Diagnosis question? 

300

Lowest level of research that are usually retrospective in nature and have no comparison group.

What are case and case series reports? 

300

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400

It keeps practices current and relevant, results in improved patient outcomes, and keeps clinical practices current and relevant. 


What are the aims of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)? 

400

This type of question is a broad, basic knowledge question that can usually best be answered from information found in textbooks, general clinical resources or by the patient themselves.

What is a background question?

400

Researches how a disease will progress or what is the likelihood that disease will develop?

What is a Prognosis question? 

400

A diagram that depicts the flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review. It maps out the number of records identified, included and excluded, and the reasons for exclusions.

What is a flow chart? 

400

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Who is Colonel Sanders? 

500
Create an answerable question, seek out evidence to answer the question, appraise the evidence, integrate evidence into practice, evaluate process. 


What are the 5-steps to evidence-based practice? 

500

This type of question is a very specific question that, when answered, provides evidence to inform a clinical decision. A foreground question is usually answered by investigating the research.

What is a foreground question?

500

Explores the negative impact of an intervention or exposure on a patient

What is an Etiology question?

500

 A design that aims to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between an independent and dependent variable but does not rely on random assignment. Instead, subjects are assigned to groups based on non-random criteria.


What is a Quasi-experimental research study design? 

500

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