EBM

Question 1

How should you design a clinical question?

Answer 1

Patient/problem/population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

Question 2

Which type of study:

• uses 2 groups: experienced an event (lung cancer) vs not experienced the same event (no lung cancer)
• examines how exposure to suspect agents (smoking) differed between 2 groups

Answer 2

Case control study

Question 3

Which type of study:

- analyses a series of people with the disease (lung cancer)

Answer 3

Case series

Question 4

Which type of study:

• follows a group of people
• examines how exposure to risk factors differ (smoking)
• examines occurrence of specified event (lung cancer)

Answer 4

Cohort study

Question 5

Which type of study:

• participants assigned randomly to a group
• at least one group receives an intervention which is tested against another

Answer 5

Randomised controlled trial

Question 6

Which type of study:

- a review used to ifentify, appraise and summarise studies addressing a defined question

Answer 6

Systematic Review

Question 7

Which type of study:

- summarises several studies in a single weighted estimate using a statistical technique

Answer 7

Meta-analysis