Evidence-Based Dentistry
Research Design
Experimental
Ethics
Study Types
100

The three components of Evidence-Based Dentistry. 

What are: clinician's expertise, patient's needs, & scientific evidence?

100

The empirical approach to scientific inquiry is based on this. 

What is observation?

100

The group that receives the intervention

What is the experimental group?

100

The 3 principles of the Belmont Report. 

  1. Respect for persons

  2. Beneficence

  3. Justice

100

The research study type that describes one patient's disease. 

What is Case Report?

200

The definition of a systematic review

What is a comprehensive review of ALL literature on a research topic?

200

The research design when a researcher only observes behaviors as they naturally happen. 

What is non-experimental research?

200

The group that does not receive the intervention. 

What is the control group?

200

A detailed description of all the procedures in a research study.

What is research protocol?

200

The study type that describes a group of patients with a disease.

What is Case Series?

300

The level of evidence that is higher than systematic reviews. 

What are clinical guidelines?

300

The research design when the researcher introduces an intervention to cause an outcome.  

What is experimental research?

300

A trait that a researcher is analyzing. 

What is a variable?

300

A statement that provides information about the research study to potential participants so they can decide whether to enroll. 

What is informed consent?

300

A study that measures the proportion of a population who have a particular disease at a point in time.

What is Cross Sectional?

400

The statistical methods used when conducting a systematic review. 

What is meta-analysis?

400

A research design that produces data in numbers

What is quantitative research?

400

The variable that is the intervention introduced by the researcher that caused the outcome. 

What is the independent variable?

400

The principle that assures that individuals get to choose what information they reveal about themselves

What is privacy?

400

A study that compares the exposure histories of people with disease and people without disease.

What is Case Control?

500

The 5 steps in the research process are:  

What are:  

  1. Identify study question

  2. Select study approach

  3. Design study & collect data

  4. Analyze data

  5. Report findings
500

A research design that produces data in words

What is qualitative research?

500

The outcome or effect that is measured after the researcher introduced the intervention. 

What is the dependent variable?

500

The 3 goals of the institutional review board. 

What are:

  1. Protect human subjects 

  2. Protect researchers 

  3. Legally protect the institution

500

A study that follows participants through time to measure the rate of new cases of disease.

What is Cohort?

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