ASK Flashcards
Develop your answerable clinical question is which of the 5 As
Ask
Ask uses what model to evaluate the key components:
- Patient/Population problem
- Intervention/exposure
- Comparison
- Outcome
What questions should be asked about the patient/population of interest? (3)
- who are the patients of interest?
- is there a particular age group, gender, or population?
- What is the health concern?
What questions should be asked about the intervention/exposure? (2)
- what therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative, or other health care interventions are you interested in knowing more about?
- what health care management strategies are you interested in comparing?
what questions should be asked about the comparison of interest? (1)
- is there a comparison to be evaluated against the intervention?
comparison should only be used if: (2)
- more than one intervention
- no intervention is a factor
What questions should be asked about the outcome of interest?
- what is the desired outcome to be evaluated?
- How will the patient or population be affected, or not affected by the intervention?
Along with PICO, it is also important to know: (2)
What type of question you are asking
-what is the best study design to search for to find evidence to answer your clinical question
Evidence supports how to select ________ to offer your patients that do more good than harm and that are worth the efforts and cost of using them
treatment/therapy
evidence supports how to select and interpret ________ in order to confirm or exclude a diagnosis, based on considering their precision accuracy, acceptability, expense, safety, etc.
diagnosis
evidence supports how to estimate your patiently likely ___________ over time and anticipate likely complications o the disorder
prognosis/ clinical course
evidence supports how to identify causes for disease is a question relating to:
harm/etiology
Study/methodology for treatment/therapy questions: (2)
- Double-blind randomized controlled trial
- systematic reviews/ meta analysis of RCT
Study/methodology for diagnosis questions: (2)
- controlled trial
- systematic reviews/meta analysis of controlled trial
study/methodology for prognosis questions (3)
- cohort studies
- case control
- case series