01: EBD Flashcards
What are the tenets of conventional clinical decision making
Knowledge from traditional schooling
Published Literature
Continuing Education
What are the limitations of traditional schooling
Textbooks go out of date
Content experts and Professors aren’t always available
Clinical observations are variable and subjective
What are the limitations to published literature
Overwhelming volume
What are the limitations of CE?
Proven to be not very helpful
What are the 5 A’s of EBD
Ask Acquire Appraise Apply Assess
What does PICO stand for
Patient/Pr
Why formulate a PICO question?
Helps to focus your scarce time
Necessary for high yield search strategies
Helps communicate more clearly with colleagues
If answered, our knowledge grows, curiosity is reinforced and we can become better clinicians.
What are the 4 types of PICO Questions
Look Up Later
What is a better indicator (than the pyramid) when designing a study?
Whether the study us of benefit or harm to people.
e.g. you can’t do human trial RCTs on the effects of harmful treatments
Systematic deviation between study measurement and true population values
Bias
Factors that distort the relationship between exposure and outcome
Confounding factors
What are the 3 basic questions asked by CASP
Is the study valid
What are the results
Are the results useful
What is represented by the greek letter alpha
The significance level
What does the significance level (alpha) represent?
The probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis
Assuming no differences in the population, what is the probability of observing differences this large in the sample?
P-value
