Information literacy Flashcards
What is information literacy?
The ability to know when information is need then to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use the information
Difference between a background question and a foreground question
Background is a general knowledge question, what is this what is that?
Foreground is a specific question about a patient which is not set in stone, and complex, involved, and no easily retrievable answer.
Describe oral, enteral, and total parenteral nutrition.
Oral feeding is by mouth
Enteral is tube feeding, tube down the mouth etc
Total parenteral nutrition is intravenous alimentation. INjection, IV.
Design a pico for an adult with severe acute pancreatis and what each letter stands for.
Patient: adult with severe acute pancreatis
Intervention: enteral feeding.
Comparison: total parenteral nutrition
Outcome: survival, disease severity, complications.
What is dynamed and first consult good for?
Summary (preappraised resources) contain a full range of evidence concerning management options for a given health problem.
Should include details of the retrieval process, appraisal process for rating evidence…etc.
What is a systematic review?
A systematic review is a type of review that collect and critically analyzes multiple research studies or papers. A review of existing studies. It address a specific question.
What is best for background question and which is best for foreground question?
When you are looking for background information it is best to look at a textbook or a journal article. (pubmed. not a review article.
For foreground question, use evidence based summary resources like first consult, dynamed. Cochrane, systematic review.
