EBP Quiz Flashcards
Evidence based practice
Integration of best available, evidence, expertise, and patient values when evaluating in treating
History of manual muscle tests
In the 1930s, from the polio epidemic
History of physical therapy
World War I, Mary McMillan. A PTA started in 1921.
Archie Cochrane
Created grouping of articles and summarizing them. One of the founding fathers of evidence base practice.
David sackett
One of the founding fathers of evidence based practice. Developed levels of evidence and the pyramids of articles.
Process of evidence based practice
Patient dilemma, asking questions, acquiring evidence, assessing evidence, and apply and reassess
PICO
Patient/problem, intervention, comparison intervention, outcome
FINER acronym
Feasible, interesting, novel, ethical, relevant
Database searching at TWU
Go to library, click on databases, start with PubMed, and CINAHL
Medline database
National library of medicine
Pubmed database
Provides free access to Medline. Can search PICO literature
Primary sources of evidence
Original research
Secondary sources of evidence
Predigested research
Randomly controlled trial
Highest quality. Subjects are randomized and typically blinded
Cohort study
Predetermined groups with specific disease
Case-control studies
Groups have disease, look back in time to find possible causes
Systematic review versus meta-analysis
Systematic review: asks specific clinical questions and performs a comprehensive search that illuminates the poorly done studies
Meta-analysis: systematic review that includes data
CEBM information resources pyramid levels
1a, 1b, 1c. 2a, 2b, 2c. 3a, 3b. 4, 5.
CEBM information resources pyramid grades
A-F
1A
Systematic reviews/meta-analysis.
1B
Randomized controlled trials with a narrow confidence interval
1C
All or none. All patients died before research was available, now some survive. Some patients died before research was available, now, none die.