The father of evidence-based medicine
Who is Dr. David Sackett?
Evidence based practice integrates this:
Client values, clinician's expertise, and best research evidence
A good tool to evaluate Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)
What is the AGREE II tool? (T or F)
The difference between the Triple and Quadruple aims is the measure of cost of healthcare (T or F)
What is false? Quadruple addresses the needs pf healthcare provider
A diagnostic test based on the expert opinion of 5 orthopedic surgeons (T or F)
What is a Level 5 study?
These tests are better at ruling the condition out:
What are sensitivity tests? (SNOUT)
These tests are better at ruling the condition in
What are sensitivity tests? (SPIN)
A data type that should be used to analyze parametric statistics
What is interval data?
Manipulated by the researcher to affect change of a dependent variable
What is an independent variable?
Inter-rater reliability of a Continuous Variable should be evaluated using which of the following statistics; interval data
What is Intraclass Correlation Coefficient? (ICC)
a non-parametric measure of rank correlation (statistical dependence between the rankings of two variables); Dichotomous
What is Spearman's Correlation Coefficient?
Used for non-parametric, nominal
weighted one is for ordinal,
What is Kappa Coefficient?
This can discriminate BETWEEN patients and the consistency between measurements; can be comparing non-parametric units; R value between 0-1
What is relative reliability?
Three important things for any study
Are the results valid, meaningful, and relevant to my patient?
a comprehensive review of current literature from several sources
What is Systematic Review?
an extension of a systematic review and consists of pooling data from several studies with related hypotheses; refers to the statistical approach to combining the data derived from a systematic-review
What is a meta-analysis?
Studies concerned with non-exposure in cases with a specific outcome
What is a case controlled study?
In these studies these can be
~Cross sectional or longitudinal
~prospective or retrospective
~Start with the exposure
What are cohort studies?
Subjects are enrolled and monitored for the outcome
What are cohort studies?
Different between trohoc and cohort:
What is a cohort study is prospective and a trohoc is retrospective?
A study design that lacks either randomization or a control group or both
A study design that have both randomization and a control group
What is a true experimental design?
A 2x3x2 design group that contains this amount of independent variables and this amount of groups
What is 3 independent variables and 12 groups?
A study design that can be descriptive but not interventional
What is observational?
Used within groups and not between and also tests the same group
What is a Paired T-test?