Exam Evidence Informed Decision Making Flashcards
Why do we need evidence infomed decisin making
So we dont carry out treament based on asking others only
Contraversy around a procedure
Not sure about best course of treatment
Unexpected patient outcomes
When patients suggest prefers treatment
What research method is positivist and deductive
Quantative
What research method tests hypothesis
Quantitative
What reasearch method has big number
Quantitative
What research method is objective and casual relationships
Quantitative
What research method is interpretive and humanistic
Qualitative
What research method is an inductive process and advances theory
Qualitative
What research method can knowledge be constructed in social/historical context
Qualitative
What research method is based on fact
Quantitative
What reseach method is based on pragmatic criteria
Qualitative
What research method is non experumental
Qualitative
What research method is exploratory/examine phenomena
Qualitative
What research method is useful to explore patient/staff experice
Qualitative
What research method is used to gain undertanding of heath issues
Qualitative
What research method draws themes from data collection and iterperates them to give meaning
Qualitative
What research method is less ridid
Qualitative
What research method has random contolled trials
Quantitative
What research method is quasi experimental
Quantitative
What research method is case control
Quantitative
What research method is cohort study
Quantitative
Hierarchy of evidence is quantitative
1) systematic reveiws
2) clinical trials
3) observational studies
4) case reports, case series
5) anecdotal findings, opinions, ideas
Hierarchy of evidence qualitative
1) generalisable studies
2) conceptual studies
3) descriptive studies
4) single case studies
Evidence informed decision making benefits
Improve patient care
More effective yse of resources
Improve health overall
Lessen gap between effective reseach and practice
Improved info for patients
Professional development/attitudes of enquiry
Drive practice development
Opportunity to identify further areas of research
Evidence informed decision making barriers
Time
Inability to access research
Inability to understand language
Lack of critical apraisal skills
Lack of confidence in making change based of research evidence
Lack of sense of control over practice
Cultural resistance to change
What components does evidence informed decison making miss within evidence based practice
Use of clinical expertise in decision making
Integration of the patients desires
What tool is used for formulating a question for searching in quantitative research
PICO(T)
What tool is used for formulating a question for searching in qualitative research
SPIDER
What does PICO(T) stand for
Population/problem, intervention, comparrison, outcome, timeframe
What does SPIDER stand for
Sample, phenomenon of interest, design, evaluation, research type
Databases to use
CINAHL
AMED
cochrane
JBI
medline
NICE
open grey
Internurse
Whats truncation
A searching technique
A word ending is replaced by a symbol (atrisk , qmark ?, dollar $)
E.g. nurs (nurse, nurses, nursing, nursed)
What are wildcards
A searching method to look for alternative spellings
E.g. hospitali*ation (hospitalisation and hospitalization)
What ate the boolean terms
AND, OR, NOT
What does AND do (boolean)
Decreases the search (fines fewer)
What does OR do (boolean)
Increases the search (finds more)
What does NOT do (boolean)
Excludes things - use carfully
What limiters can you apply when searching
Dates
Age ranges
Publication type (journal article, review)
Counrty
Language
Author
Study design (RCT, systematic reveiw)
Can adding limiations to searches be seen as an increasing bias?
Yes
What research method is interested in peoples experiences, perceptions, thoughts, ideas
Qualitative
What are paradigms
Ontology, epistemology, methodology
What is ontology
What is the truth/reality
What is epistemology
What and how can i know reality/knowledge
How can we find out about it
What is methodolgy
What procedure can we use to aquire knowledge
How do we find out what we ate looking for? What data is required?
What are methods used for in reasearch
To know What tools can be used to acquire knowledge
What are sources in research
What data can we collect
When would you use research methods (qualitative)
Captire personal experiences and develop deeper understanding
Explore new contwct
Explore and understand a particular phenomenon
Develop a theory to explain an existing process
Intensive study of an individual/event
Verify something that is taking place in a real world setting
Evaluate a practice ot approach
What are qualitative methodologies
Ethnography
Narrative inquiry
Phenomenology
Grounded theory
Case study
Generic qualitative approach or qualitative descriptivw studies
What does ethnography focus on (qual)
Understanding context or culture
Why people behave the way they do
What data collection is ethnography (qual)
Observation or interveiws
What is emic etic is ethnography (qual)
Emic - insiders veiw
Etic - observers veiw
What does narrative inquiry focus on (qual)
Individual experice or sequence
What the story of the person is
How an individual makes sense of events in thwir life
What elements ate being emphasised (why they are telling it in that way)
What data collection us used for narrative inquiry (qual)
Stories from individuals or documents
What does phenomenology focus on (qual)
People who have experienced a phenomenon (Lived experience)
Understand peoples perspective, perception, experiences or understandings
What data collection is used for phenomenology (qual)
Interveiws
What does grounded theory focus on (qual)
Develop a theory from grounded feild data
More objective way of conducting research
Generating a theory from data
Theoratical sampling (endorse or refuse categories)
What data collection is used in groundwd theory (qual)
Interveiws and generating concepts and themes
What does a casw study focus on (qual)
Individual or event
Hollistic understanding in real world case
Useful in gaining knowledge about experience
What data collection is used in case studies (qual)
Interveiws, documents, reports or observations
What does generic qualitative approach or qualitative descriptive studies focus on
Straightforward description to capture elements of an experience or situation
What data collection does generic qualitative approach or qualitative descriptive studies use
Interviews, focus groups, open surveys
What reseach method would have a sample that is purposive or purposeful
Qualitative
(Picking out people who know alot about what you’re studying)
What reseach method would have a sample that is theoretical
Qualitative
(Talk to the person who most likely to give us info if our theory fits or not)
What reseach method would have a sample that is snowball
Qualitative
(Studying population thats hard to reach, hard to find participants)
What reseach method would have a sample that is maximum variation
Qualitative
(Trying to understand a phenomenon from a range of perspectives)
What reseach method would have a sample that is convenience
Qualitative
(Pragmatic approach, talking to someone thats in a particular place at a particular time)
How long do you sample data fir in qualitative research
Until data saturation/theoratical saturation
What reseach methods are used in qualitative data collection
Interviews
Participat observation (ethnographic studies)
Focus groups
Texts, documents, field notes, stories
Whats an interactive process
When new insight is gained that warrants deeper exploration
What process is data analysis in qualitative research
Inductive process - generating/understanding knowledge from data
Interactive process
When can data analysis in qualitative research happen
During data collection and after
What is reflexivity in qualitative
Point out our perspective
Knowledge and experience of researcher is valued but needs to be clear this didnt affect the data
What is triangulation in qualitative
Using more than 1 method/source of data
Looking at different ways of understanding behaviour
Looking ar different perspectives
Looking at things from different angles
Whst are critical appraisals
Asking questions of tye study
How was it conducted
What research meathod is a scientific approach
Quantitative
What research meathod is bu augste comte
Quantitative
What research meathod is positivism
Quantitative
What research meathod emphasises the use of s scientific method through observation
Quantitative
What research meathod tests hypothesis
Quantitative
What research method explains and predicts what, where, why, how and when phenomena occurred
Quantitative
What is quantitative research
Positivist, deductive, test hypotheses
Numbers, objectiv, casual relationships
True beilfe corresponds to fact
What research method has a high number of participants
Quantitative
What are the types of research methodologies in quantitative
Random contolled trials
Quasi-experimental
Case control
Cohort study
What is randomised conrolled tiral (quant)
Scientific experiment with random assigned participants
Gold standard
Looks at a treatment/prevention can be efficiently and objectively tested
What type of quantitative research has trial arms
Random conrolled trials
What type of quantitaive reswarch used blinding and why
Random conrolled tirals
Wo they dont know the type od treatment
What is single blinding
The patient has no idea what type of treatment they are receiving
What is double blinding
The patient and investigator don’t know what type of treatment is being received
What is tripple blinding
The patient, investigator and the person responsible for analysing the data don’t know the type of treatment
What does tripple blinding ensure
That data analysis is as objective as possible and further reduces the influence of the placebo effect
What is quasi-experimental in quantitative research
Non randomised
Manipulation of the independant variable
Can include comparison of groups
What is case contol (quant)
Compres groups
Someone that has the disease to soemone that doesnt
Looks back retrospectively to compare potential exposure and frequency to identified risk factor
What type of quant research identifies the relationship between the risk factor and the disease progression
Case control
What is cohort study (quant)
Samples a group of people are defining characteristics
Doing the same thing at the same time
Studying them for a long period of time (can be longitudinal)
What are survey designs
Obtain information from a large number of respondents
Aims to answer questions about prevalence, distribution and into relationships of variables
What do survey designs get information about
Practices
Opinions
Attitude/belief
Knowledge
Characteristics of groups/people
What do survey designs not look at
They answer whether one thing affects another but doesn’t look to see what’s causing it
What types of surveys are there (quant)
Longitudinal and cross-sectional
What are longitudinal surveys
Over a period of time
What are cross-sectional surveys
At a single point in time (most common)
Usually based on self report data collected face-to-face, by telephone, post, Internet
When sampling, what do probability methods do (quant)
Increase the representativeness of the sample
Sample is obtained randomly
What are the four probability methods when sampling
Simple random systematic, stratified, cluster
What are simple random probability methods (quant)
Research are randomly selected elements from sampling frame
What are systematic probability methods (quant)
Research selects every kth element from sampling frame
What are stratified probability methods (quant)
Researcher creates subgroups then randomly selects elements from each subgroup
What are cluster probability methods (quant)
Researcher randomly select clusters then randomly selects elements from selected clusters
What is non-probability when samping (quant)
Not every element of the population has an opportunity to be selected
Can decrease the representatives of a population
What are the 2 non-probability methods when sampling (quant)
Convinience (accidental)
Quota sampling
What is convenience in non-probability (quant)
Subjects happened to be in the right place at the right time to be recruited
What is quota sampling in non-probability (quant)
Like convenience sampling with added feature – a strategy to ensure inclusion of likely to be underrepresented if just convenience sampled i.e. ethic, minorities, female, elderly, rich, poor
What are the types of data collection in quantitative
Experiments,
clinical trials,
surveys,
questionnaires (closed questions)
Interviews (if collecting numerical data e.g.scales) (or using closed ended q’s that count data)
Data is collected and record it systematically – aids computer/data sheet and true
What type of research results in a numerical value
Quantitative
Where do you put data analysis (quant)
Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft access, SPSS (statistical package for social sciences)
What do you measure in quantitative
Variables: qualities, properties or characteristics of persons, things and situations that change and vary
What is an independent variable (quant)
A stimulus or activity that is manipulated or varied by the researcher to create an effect on the dependent variable (can be called the treatment of experimental variable) 
What is the dependent variable (quant)
The response, behaviour or outcome that the researcher wants to explain or predict. Changes within the dependent variable are presumed to be caused by the independent variable
What is the dependent variable in this example
“ oxygen delivery via nasal cannula of up to 6 litres per minute doesn’t affect oral temperature“
Temperature
What is the independent variable in this example
“ oxygen delivery via nasal cannula of up to 6 litres per minute doesn’t affect oral temperature“
Oxygen as it’s administered at 2, 4 or 6 litres per minute
What type of variables are there
Categorical variable
Binary variable
Nominal variable
ordinal
continuous
Ratio
What are categorical variables
Made up of categories i.e. species – dog, cat, human, fruit bat
What are binary variables
Two distinct types of things, (male or female)
What are nominal variables
Data such as ethnicity, marital status for diagnosis. No one thing is higher than another
What is ordinal variable
Designed to rank the data, can be defined i.e. pain score 1-3
What is continuous variable
Provides a score for a person e.g. age, number of pets, number of siblings 
What is ratio variable
Temperature, height, weight
What is odds ratio
Likelihood of someone doing something in comparison to something
What is descriptive statistics (quant)
Describes and summarises the data
Percentages mean, median, mode
what is the mean
Implies an average
What is the median
The mean of the two middle numbers
What is the mode
the value that appears most often
What is standard deviation (quant)
How much the participants in the group differ from the mean of group i.e. disperation of the data around the mean
What do inferential statistics determine
Types of data collected determine which group of statistical tests to use
Parametric
Non parametric
What is used to determine the statistical significance of any observed differences between groups
Inferential statistics
What is parametric
Normally distributed interval or ratio data
What is non parametric
Non-normally distributed interval or ratio data
ordinal or normal data
What does hypothesis suggest (quant)
That an affect will be present
Denoted by H1
What does null hypothesis suggest (quant)
States the effect is absent
Denoted by H0
What is the conventional clutter in P values (quant)
0.05 or 5%
What does it mean if P value is greater than 0.05 (quant)
Results are not statistically significant and there is insufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis
What does it mean if the P value is less than or equal to 0.05
Results are statistically significant and there is sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis
What does P<0.05 mean
Less than p
What dues P>0.05 mean
More than P
What Are P values
Computing probabilities to evaluate evidence
Illustrates a statistically significant difference between results
What are confidence intervals
Sit within a normal curve
What is good for critiqing
CASP
JBI
Whats bias in quant
Numbers can say exactly what you want to see:
- respondant (how people respond to data)
- social desirability (survey answers)
- habituation
- sponsor
- culture
- question order
- leading q’s and words used
- the halo affect
- sources of bias (sample selection, size, analysis of results)
What is validity (quant)
Approximate truth of conclusions
What is internal validity (quant)
Relevant studies considering casual relationships
What is external validity (quant)
Approximate truth of conclusions that include generalisations
There are well defined steps in the evidance based practice process that require new skills to be developed. What do these skills include
Constructing clinical questions
Searching for research
Evaluating clinical literature
Whats a bias
Anything in the design ir undertaking of yhe study that causes an untruth to occur in the study potentially affecting its outcome
What is single blinding
Where the research particupant doeant know which arm of the Study they are allocated to
What is double blinding
Where the research participant and researchers don’t know which arm of the research the participant is allocated to
What’s another word for blinding
Masking
Blinding is usually used in randomised controlled trials
Whats bracketing
The process where the researchers put their preconceptions about a topic to one side to allow them to explore the topic as if they were naive about it
What type of research can bracketing be used in
Phenomenological research
What does causality mean
Cause and effect
Whats a closed question
A question that allows for a limited response such as a yes or no answer
What’s confounding mean
This occurs when alternative explanations for an outcome in the study are not accounted for
Confounding variables are always independently associated with both the exposure and outcome being measured 
What does control arm mean
The arms of a randomised controlled trial intervention studies not applied
Allows us to be sure that will be studied causes the outcome they ate measuring
Whats a convenience sample
A sample of individuals who are easily accessed