Review of Terms + Communities of Practice

Question 1

What is internal evidence?

Answer 1

Data collected from clients, valid and highly-skilled

Question 2

What is external evidence?

Answer 2

Research

Question 3

What is inductive (clinical) evidence?

Answer 3

Reflecting on own expertise and collection + analysis of data in clinical practice

Question 4

New move to 4 pieces of EBP includes which 4 pieces

Answer 4

1. Clinical expertise
2. Research evidence
3. Practice-based evidence
4. Patient/family preferences

Question 5

What is importance?

Answer 5

Rationale for study, ability to generalize the study outside of context it was conducted

Question 6

What is validity?

Answer 6

Did the study do what it intended to do, discover what it intended to discover

Question 7

What is critical appraisal?

Answer 7

Finding evidence of study validity in a research article

Question 8

What is a causal inference?

Answer 8

IV caused change in DV, via RCTs
Indicated by the words improve, predict

Question 9

Key words for causal relationship

Answer 9

Significance, effect, positive or negative directionality, improve, worsen, predicts

Question 10

Key words for correlation

Answer 10

Relationship, association
Run regression test

Question 11

What level of evidence are RCTs?

Answer 11

Second highest level of evidence, meta-analyzes are above

Question 12

What is alpha?

Answer 12

p=0.05 or less than 0.05, means the finding was significant

Question 13

T-test or anova run for

Answer 13

Differences, t-test for 2 groups, ANOVA for more than 2 groups

Question 14

What does level of IV indicate?

Answer 14

Number of different groups of IV

Question 15

Research to practice gaps: knowledge gaps are caused by

Answer 15

Little time to read/summarize research
Takes longer for clinicians than researchers
Little research on many conditions
Poor external validity (generalization)

Question 16

Research to practice gaps: Action gaps are caused by

Answer 16

Long research to practice pathway
Interventions are not developed with practitioners or families/patients
Effective interventions are hard to implement
Costly, time-consuming professional development

Question 17

Traditional development does not help research to practice gap because

Answer 17

Not long enough to change practice patterns
Intervention models are presented as rigid non-adaptable,
Don’t account for local resources, material, culture, etc.
Don’t include allied health professionals

Question 18

What is the knowledge to action cycle?

Answer 18

Clinical practice guidelines/research summaries to standard operating procedures/diagnostic treatment manuals

Question 19

Knowledge creation to action cycle is connected by

Answer 19

Problem/need

Question 20

Knowledge to action communities include

Answer 20

COPs (Communities of practice)
RPPs (Research Practice Partnerships)

Question 21

What is a COP (Community of Practice)?

Answer 21

Group of individuals that share common goal or passion/activity
Improve skills through interaction with other group members

Question 22

What is a RPP (research practice partnership)?

Answer 22

Group focused on study implementation and enact systemic adoption/change
Involves researchers

Question 23

COPs vs RPPs focus

Answer 23

COPs: pratice patterns
RPPs: research

Question 24

What three aspects do RPPs and COPs share?

Answer 24

Shared practice, community, domain of knowledge (interest or area of need)

Question 25

What methods are used by COPs and RPPs?

Answer 25

Regular social meetings
Knowledge to action cycles
Address local contextual factors
Ongoing, supported problem-solving

Question 26

What goals do COPs and RPPs share?

Answer 26

Connection and support (share workload)
Knowledge transition (KTA cycle)
Implementation/adoption
Systematic evaluation/study/change