Evidence based medicine

Question 1

What two microorganisms can cause epiglottitis?

Answer 1

Haemophilus influenzae B and Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 2

What are the 3 D’s for epiglottitis presentation?

Answer 2

Drooling, dysphagia and distress

Question 3

Define evidence based medicine

Answer 3

Conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence

Question 4

Which 3 things make up evidence based medicine?

Answer 4

Clinical judgement, relevant scientific evidence and patients values and preferences

Question 5

What does a systematic review have to be?

Answer 5

reproducible, transparent methodology, explicit assumptions

Question 6

What is a meta-analysis?

Answer 6

a quantitative synthesis of the results of two or more primary studies that addressed the same hypothesis in the same way

Question 7

Fixed vs random effects model?

Answer 7

fixed = assumes that the studies are estimating exactly the same true effect size
random = assumes that the studies are estimating similar, but not the same true effect size