Chapter One Flashcards
A short, comprehensive synopsis or summary of a study at the beginning of an article.
Abstract
Systematically developed practice statements designed to assist clinicians about health care decisions for specific conditions or situations.
Clinical Guidelines
expert-based guidelines, are developed by an agreement of experts in the field.
Consensus Guidelines
Appraisal by a nurse who is a knowledgeable consumer of research, and who can appraise research evidence and use existing standards to determine the merit and readiness of research for use in clinical practice.
Critical Appraisal
An active interpretation and objective assessment of an article during which the reader is looking for key concepts, ideas, and justifications.
Critical Reading
The process of critical appraisal that objectively and critically evaluates a research report’s content for scientific merit and application to practice.
Critique
Are those developed using published research findings.
Evidence-based guidelines
The conscious and judicious use oft he current “best” evidence in the care of patients and delivery of health care services.
Evidence-based practice
Synthesis review of the literature on a specific concept or topic.
Integrative Review
A rating system for judging the strength of a study’s design.
Levels of Evidence
A research method that takes the results of multiple studies in a specific area and synthesizes the findings to make conclusions regarding the area of focus.
Meta-Analysis
Integrates qualitative research findings on a topic and is based on comparative analysis and interpretative synthesis.
Meta-Synthesis
The systematic use of data to monitor the outcomes of care processes as well as the use of improvement methods to design and test changes in practice from the purpose of continuously improving the quality and safety of health care systems.
Quality Improvement (QI)
The study of research questions about human experiences. It is often conducted in natural settings, and uses data that are words or text, rather than numerical, in order to describe the experiences that are being studied.
Qualitative Research
The process of testing relationships, difference, and cause and effect interactions among and between variables. These processes are tested with either hypotheses and/or research questions.
Quantitative Research
