Evidence-Based Dentistry
The three components of Evidence-Based Dentistry.
What are: clinician's expertise, patient's needs, & scientific evidence?
The empirical approach to scientific inquiry is based on this.
What is observation?
The group that receives the intervention.
What is the experimental group?
The process of selecting a group of participants from a population for a research study.
What is sampling?
The 3 principles of the Belmont Report.
Respect for persons
Beneficence
Justice
The definition of a systematic review.
What is a comprehensive review of ALL literature on a research topic?
The research design when a researcher only observes behaviors as they naturally happen.
What is non-experimental research?
The group that does not receive the intervention.
What is the control group?
A method of sampling used to minimize bias.
What is simple random sample?
A detailed description of all the procedures in a research study.
What is research protocol?
The level of evidence that is higher than systematic reviews.
What are clinical guidelines?
The research design when the researcher introduces an intervention to cause an outcome.
What is experimental research?
A trait that a researcher is analyzing.
What is a variable?
Increasing the sample size increases this.
What is a precision?
A statement that provides information about the research study to potential participants so they can decide whether to enroll.
What is informed consent?
The statistical methods used when conducting a systematic review.
What is meta-analysis?
A research design that produces data in numbers.
What is quantitative research?
The variable that is the intervention introduced by the researcher that caused the outcome.
What is the independent variable?
The sample participants are selected because they have key information or specific characteristics relevant to the research study.
What is purposive sampling?
The principle that assures that individuals get to choose what information they reveal about themselves
What is privacy?
The 5 steps in the research process are:
What are:
Identify study question
Select study approach
Design study & collect data
Analyze data
A research design that produces data in words.
What is qualitative research?
The outcome or effect that is measured after the researcher introduced the intervention.
What is the dependent variable?
The sample where the researcher selects participants by selecting every 5th numbered individual for a sample.
What is a systematic sample?
The 3 goals of the institutional review board.
What are:
Protect human subjects
Protect researchers
Legally protect the institution