AND, OR, and NOT are all examples of this strategy
What is Boolean Logic
100
True or False: PEDro includes abstracts of RCT, SR, and practice guidelines
What is True
100
What level of evidence is an individual randomized controlled trial?
What is 1B
100
What type of research is numerical data and statistical analysis
What is quantitative research
100
What four groups of people should be blinded for an ideal research study?
What is patients, treating clinicians, data collectors, and data analysts
200
This system provides sets of terms in a hierarchal structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity and is used to cover varying terminology
What is MeSH terms
200
Out of these four databases, which is not a real database?
CINAHL
Open Door
PTLM
The Dome
What is PTLM
200
What level of evidence is a cohort study?
What is 2B
200
What is the difference between a systematic review and a meta-analysis?
What is systematic review is a comprehensive analysis, while a meta analysis is statistically combining
200
What is the difference between a background and foreground question?
What is background question is knowledge of the specific disorder, while foreground questions identify evidence regarding an intervention
300
Name and explain in detail the four-letter acronym used to generate a question to help our clinical decision-making
What is PICO. Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome
300
Through what two websites can we access PubMed, PEDro, OVID, and Hooked on Evidence
What is through APTA membership and the SHU library website
300
What is a Case Series and what level of evidence is it?
What is report on a series of patients with an outcome of interest, no control groups involved. Level 4
300
What is the difference between a primary source and a secondary source?
What is primary is reporting out on a study and peer reviewed, while secondary is an interpretation of numerous studies
300
Why is it important to have a similar baseline of individuals in treatment and control groups?
What is so no extraneous variables compete with intervention to explain observed outcomes
400
If a search results in too few resources, what needs to be increased and how could you accomplish that
What is increase sensitivity, using truncation or wildcards or "explode" option
400
Which database, included with APTA membership, includes extractions of journal articles related to PT interventions
What is Hooked on Evidence
400
What is a case control study and what level of evidence is it?
What is Identifying patients of interest and control patients without the same outcome and looking back to see if they had the exposure of interest Level 3b
400
What does the symbol $ mean and how does it change a search?
What is truncation symbol which includes broad interpretation of word, plurals, spelling variations and it broadens the search
400
What is the lowest form of evidence?
What is expert opinion and/or tradition
500
what does "exp Exercise Therapy/ OR exp Exercise/" mean
What is search the MeSH terms "exercise therapy" or "exercise" and "explode" these MeSH terms - meaning to search this subject and any subject that would fall underneath that category
500
Systematic Reviews would be found the easiest on which database?
What is Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews or limiting search on another database
500
What type of research design is this study and what level of evidence is it?
Johansson KM, Adolfsson LE, Foldevi MOM. Effects of acupuncture versus ultrasound in patients with impingement syndrome. Phys Ther. 2005; 85(6); 490-501
What is Randomized clinical trial level 1B
500
What type of validity exerts control over extraneous variables that could potentially impact the outcomes of the study, and what are it's limitations on a study?
What is Internal validity, has high efficacy (under ideal condtions), but low effectiveness (generalizability to clinical practice)
500
What type of reasoning consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion?
Example: All living things must die, man is a living thing, so all men must die