SSRD_Stella Flashcards
5 step model of evidence based practice
1 - Ask answerable question 2 - Find best evidence 3 - Appraise critically for validity & clinical performance 4 - Act on evidence; apply to practice 5 - Evaluate your performance
OCEBM Levels of Evidence
Oxford Centre for Evidence based practice
= hierarchy of likely best evidence
1 = Systematic reviews 2 = Randomised trial 3 = Cohort studies 4 = Case analysis 5 = Mechanistic reasoning
- studies can be graded up/down depending on effect size of results, study quality, imprecision, indirectness, inconsistency.
-> rapid appraisal
-> hierarchal approach to finding the best available evidence
-> structure reflects clinical decision making
- can be used by patients & clinicians
-> method of evaluating quality of evidence in a hierarchy system in terms of:
Prevalence
Accuracy of diagnostic tests
Prognosis
Therapeutic effects/Treatment benefits
Common harms
Rare harms
Usefulness of early screening
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appraises quality of Types of studies in respect to different considerations to direct you to where to find best evidence
CASP
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme
Initiated under Sir Muir Gray when director of research and development at Oxford regional health authority 1993, in response to need for developing skills in health care staff to meet challenge of evidence based medicine.
For anyone who wants to apply evidence based practice and use research evidence in their professional practice, professional/personal decision making & policy/guideline development
Different checklists for different types of studies e.g. systematic reviews, RCTs
Checklist of 11 Qu’s
First 2 = screening qu’s
Appraises evidence with 3 focuses
1 - Is the study valid
is it unbiased based on evaluation of methodological quality. different validity criteria used for different types of questions on: treatment, diagnosis, prognosis, economics.
2 - What are the results
If decide study valid look at results
- are they clinically important
- analyse certainty of results - are they statistically significant
3 - Are the results useful
once decided valid & important look at how applies to question. is your pt sufficiently similar to those in study?
appraises individual studies that have already been found
Cochrane Collaboration
= International, not-for-profit, independent organisation dedicated to making up-to-date accurate info about effects of healthcare readily available worldwide.
Produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.
Founded in 1993 and named after British epidemiologist Professor Archibald Cochrane
Cochrane library = suite of databases which help you find reliable evidence about effects of health care interventions
Consists of 7 databases
• Cochrane Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Other Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect
• Clinical Trials - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
• Methods Studies - Cochrane Methodology Register
• Technology Assessments - Health Technology Assessment Database
• Economic Evaluations - NHS Economic Evaluation Database
• Cochrane Groups - About The Cochrane Collaboration
allow access to highest quality evidence to inform practice
Ensure healthcare decisions throughout world can be informed by high quality, timely research evidence.
Search strategy to find the best available evidence
Select a medical database e.g. Medline, Cochrane
** Key word searching
Split question into key concepts and search for al word variations
Truncation *
- helps find word with variant endings e.g. therapy*
Nesting ()
-use to group words together e.g. (Tooth or teeth) adj3 (whitening or bleaching)
Adjacency adj
- finds words within a given distance of each other e.g. periodontal adj. disease
Wild card ?
- searches for single character/none at all -> combats spelling differences e.g. organic?ation
Combine searches AND/OR
Or - combines all related terms/synonyms within one concept
And - to get final collection references combine 2 concepts’ sets of results
**Subject Heading searching
Map to subject heading
Allows you to find paper about a topic rather than just those that specifically mention it in the text
helps locate more potentially relevant papers than keyword searching alone
**Apply limits Language Date Full text Age group Publication type
(save results + locate full text of articles found)
MODELS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Bio-medical
Health = freedom from disease and abnormalities
Adv
- Helps make relationship clear between disease and treatment
- Useful in healthcare settings i.e. does pt have a disease or not?
Disadv
- Pt’s views about symptoms/medication largely ignored
- Only focuses on pathological change/physical symptoms
- Health status reliant on knowledge & expertise of medical professionals
- Doesn’t address factors leading to development of a particular health condition e.g. mental illness such as depression
- Not all health conditions can be cured, but can be managed via behaviour modification which model doesn’t consider e.g. role functioning
MODELS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
WHO
Health = a complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing, not simply the absence of disease or infirmity
Adv
- Holistic approach; considers all aspects of health, not just pathological view
- Distinguishes between positive and negative aspects of health (true wellbeing/fitness vs injury, disability, deformity, disease etc.)
Disadv
- Vague, not detailed .’. hard to classify health status of a pt in a health care setting.
- Time consuming & difficult to implement as hard to ‘measure’ each aspect of wellbeing.
MODELS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Sociological
Health = a state of optimum capacity (physical & mental fitness) of an individual for the effective performance of roles and tasks for which they have been socialised i.e. role functioning
Adv
- Considers ‘feeling state’ of individual + biological functioning
- Expectations may vary by sex & age so health classification specific to each individual. (different expectation of 18yr boy to 80 yr woman)
- Easy to be implemented by the individual
Disadv
- Difficult to implement in certain healthcare settings by medical professionals
- Very subjective to individual and what expect from themselves, and what society expects from them
- Health and illness ‘normatively’ defined .’. expectations may be different in different communities .’. difficult to standardise, not a universal level
MODELS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Biopsychosocial
Captures all three aspects of health; biological, psychological and social wellbeing and shows interaction between them.
Adv
- Holistic view; takes into account more than one aspect of health and shows interaction between different aspects
- Can be applied to wide range of diseases
Diadv
- Too complex .’. time consuming & difficult to apply
- Some areas are subjective .’. difficult to standardise
Locus of control
= a psychological construct
→ extent to which people feel they have control over their lives, what happens to them and aspects that control them
Measured by questionnaire
Internal/External locus of control
May contribute to some health behaviours
Related to frequency of dental visiting, oral hygiene and dental health status
Dental self-efficacy = belief in one’s ability to succeed in a specific task e.g. maintain oral hygiene
- Has been shown to be associated with caries levels
Disease
= pathological condition recognised by indications agreed among biomedical practitioners – indicated by signs and symptoms
Illness
= subjective state experienced by an individual – feeling of being ill and its impacts
Sickness
= the social state that results as a consequence of feeling ill or being diseased. Sickness is reflected in a changed lifestyle (sick role) = Psychological construct & Social construct
Sick Role
= Social construct
→ Temporary release from ordinary obligation & duties e.g. Work
→ Addition to ordinary privileges
→ Obligation to co-operate and seek help in treatment
Must be sanctioned by the medical profession – diagnosis + treatment
(Parsons, 1951) – being sick not simply state of fact or condition, it is a specifically patterned social role. In western societies sick role implies major expectations.
Rights of sick role
Temporarily exempt from normal duties/social roles
More severe sickness → greater exemption
Sick person not held responsible for their condition (absence of blame). Illness considered beyond individual’s control .’. not simply curable by will power – incorporates internal/external loci of control
To be taken care of
Duties/Obligations of sick role
Expected to see being sick as undesirable → have obligation to try to get well
Exemption from normal duties temporary and conditional upon wanting and trying to get better
To seek technically competent help from a suitably qualified professional and to co-operate in the process of trying to get better.
If sick person doesn’t fulfil obligations/duties immunity from blame withheld and may lose ‘rights’
Criticisms of sick role
Resistance/rejection of sick role – does person accept sick role, may not want to be branded as sick and thus not perform sick role i.e. continue to work, do daily activities .’. don’t enter sick role contract
Roles of doctor/patient – now out-dated, different types, changing (JC lecture)
Disease ‘stigma’ and victim blaming – exists for some diseases more than others e.g. STIs, lung cancer in smokers
Acute vs chronic health condition - harder to apply chronic health conditions to sick role
– “Parsons (1975) countered this objection…the sick role obligation of the chronically ill is to minimise deterioration of their condition”, rather than get well - which may not be possible.
Health belief
Based on decision making theory
Cue to action -> Perceived susceptibility to disease -> Perceived seriousness of disease
consequences -> Belief effective measures available -> Benefits outweigh barriers -> Health action taken
