Exam 2: Answering a Clinically Relevant Question

Finding the best evidence available is the acquire part of the five-step approach used in evidence-based practice.

Once you have found the best therapy based on the scientific evidence, what should you do next in implementing this therapy into your practice? Select all that apply.

One of the best ways to determine the effectiveness of your evidence-based progress is whether your clinical practice is improving.

The five areas of self-assessment that are critical to clinical practice and should be assessed include: 1) asking answerable questions using the PICO format, 2) assessing whether your searches are efficient and relevant to your question, 3) assessing your critical appraisal of the literature, 4) evaluating your inclusion of evidence into your clinical practice, and 5) evaluating whether your clinical practice is improving.

When there is no explicit alternative in the clinical question, the implied alternative is the _________________________.

What is the main problem with using a Boolean search?

The term defined as the degree to which data or results of a study are correct or true is called ________________________.

What is the order of the five-step approach? ______________Analyze and adjust ______________Ask ______________Appraise ______________Acquire ______________Act

Which is NOT a criterion of the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)?

The database focused on rehabilitation is called the ________________________.

Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) ranks original studies above systematic reviews, which is an example of sorting by the evidence-based pyramid.

What are examples of ways to make searches more efficient? Select all that apply.

Within the PICO format, which element is optional?

The purpose of the five-step approach is to provide a problem-solving framework to identify the best evidence-based practices.

When there is an implied alternative within a clinical question, the status quo is the explicit alternative.

What is true when understanding experimental terminology? Select all that apply.

Which is a clinical question using the PICO format?

There are two primary reasons you should define patients as specifically as possible. The first reason is that you want to search for research that applies as closely to your patients as possible. What is the second reason?

Study validity refers to which of the following two kinds of validity?

What is an efficient way to search for a particular subject? Select all that apply.