20 - Controversies Pt 1

Question 1

How do you assess the evidence in news headlines?

Answer 1

Go back to the initial study!

Question 2

What are the 4 strategies to assess the study evidence and study quality:

Answer 2

1. What type of evidence is this?
2. Does this research apply to my topic?
3. How much is the result affected by bias?
4. What are the effects?

Question 3

a detailed, comprehensive, structured and critical literature review of all research studies that address a particular clinical issue. It also produces a systematic evaluation of the quality of included studies according to a pre-determined criteria:

Answer 3

Systematic review

Question 4

If the studies included in the systematic review have a comparable quantitative data and a low degree of variation in their findings, a __________________ can be performed

Answer 4

a meta-analysis

Question 5

a type of systematic review in which the data of all selected studies are pooled quantitatively and reanalyzed using statistical methods. By combining the samples of all selected studies, the overall sample size is increased, which improves the statistical power of the analysis and the estimation of treatment effects:

Answer 5

meta-analysis