What is a group of subjects who are readily available to the researcher?
100
Systematic Reviews
What is level I evidence
100
informed consent
What is the requirement of obtaining consent of the individual to participate in a study with full disclosure of risks and benefits?
100
Identification of experts in the field, to determine if research has been done before.....
What is the purpose of a literature review?
200
Validity (of an instrument)
What is the degree to which an instrument measures what it is intended to measure?
200
Snow ball sampling
What is a non-probability sampling method in which subjects are successively recruited by referrals from other subjects.
200
case study
What is level 4 evidence?
200
Beneficence
What is the obligation of researcher to attend to the well-being of individuals in the research project.
200
And, BUT, NOT
What are boolean operators?
300
two-tailed test
What is a statistical test based on non-directional alternative hypothesis in which critical values represent both positive and negative tails of a distribution?
300
stratification
What is grouping of individuals in a population into homogenous groups on some characteristic prior to sampling?
300
Sackett
Who is a primary developer of Evidence-based medicine?
300
Justice
What is the principle of fairness of selection of subjects who will benefit from the research findings.
300
Cochrane library
What is a source of systematic reviews of literature?
400
Time series design
What is a quasi-experimental design in which performance changes are assessed over time?
400
random sampling
What is a probability method of sampling where every subject in the population has an equal chance of being selected?
400
Individual RCT with narrow confidence interval
What is level 1b evidence
400
Nuremberg Code of 1949
What is the first formal document defining ethical human research practices?
400
CINAHL
What is the Cumulative index to nursing and Allied Health Literature?
500
Type II error
What is an incorrect decision to accept the null hypothesis, concluding no relationship when in fact there is?
500
Purposive sample
What is a non-probability method of sampling in which subjects are specifically selected by the researcher on the basis of subjective judgement that they are most representative?
500
Level 5 evidence
What are inconsistent or inconclusive studies of any level?
500
Declaration of Helsinki
What is the document that requires research projects be reviewed by a committee of individuals not associated with the project?
500
PEDro
What is an evidence based web resource for physical therapy?