4 research and clinical decisions

Question 1

What are the 4 A’s?

Answer 1

Assess
access
appraise
attrition

Question 2

What do we consider with assess?

Answer 2

does a therapy CAUSE a beneficial effect

Question 3

What 4 components of a research question need to be considered?

Answer 3

population
intervention
comparator
outcome

PICO

Question 4

Where might you go for RCT’s?

Answer 4

cochrane library (for just RCT’s)
medline
pubmed
embase

Question 5

What question does ‘appraise’ address?

Answer 5

does the study address a research question which is relevant to my clinical problem?
Is there a match between my PICO and the study question?

Question 6

Why do we have control groups in RCT?

Answer 6

it allows us to evaluate whether the patient would get better anyway

Question 7

What does allocation concealment do?

Answer 7

hides the sorting of trial participants into treatment groups so that this knowledge cannot be exploited. the same processes mitigated by randomisation