CDM Flashcards
What are the three parts of EBD
Best evidence, clinical judgement and patient circumstances
What is confirmation bias
people tend to believe what they hear from new or friends without looking farterh
What is prevalence
What is the frequency
What is risk
What causes the problem
What is diagnosis
Does the person have it
What is therapy
What is the best treatment
What is prognosis
Who will get the problem
What is phenomena
What are the concerns
Why use Pubmeb
It is free
It has articles that MEDLINE doesnt have
Uses MeSH terms
What are MeSH terms
Medical subject heading
Specific terms
filters articles
Why use clincial queries
Search tools and
sorts things into
clinical categories
systemci review
medical gneetics
What does clinical queries allow you to search based on
etiology
diagnosis
therapy
prognosis
clinical predictions
Do you start with advanced or clinical queries
clinical queries
What does AND do in a search
requires both terms to be searched
What does OR do in a search
Either term or both can be in the document
What does NOT do in a search
It subtracted the term from the results
Whawt is the highest levels of evidence
Meta analysis
What Q: Which is more effective at reduces caries: flouride or sealants?
Therapy
What Q: Which is more accurate for identifying caries: radiographs or diagnodent
Diagnosis
What does PICO stand for
Problem
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
When searching using PICO what order do you search in
ICPO
What PICO terms are the most necessary
IC
What can you do to prevent cognitive bias
always question assumtion
keep an open mind
always question evidence
What is logical fallacy
an error in logical argumentation
What is cognitive bias
a genuine deficiency or limitation in our thinking
Bandwagon effect?
tendency to do things because many others do the same
Confirmation bias?
looking for and valuing info that confirms what we believe
Gamblers fallacy
putting a tremendou amout of weight on previous events
Interview bias
distortion of response to an interview which results from differential reactions to the style and personality of the interview to their presention of questions
Normalcy bias
the refusal to plan for or act on a disaster which has never happened before
Measurment bias
systematically overstating or understanting the true value of a measurement
Negativity bias
paying more attention to negative news
Observation selection bias
suddenly noticing things that you did not notice before and wrongly assuming the frequency has increased
Performance bias
When one group of subjects gets more attention thatn another group
Positive expectation bias
a sense that our luck has to eventually change
Publication bias
when the otucome of a study influences the decsions whether to publush it