Week 1

Question 1

Explain evidence based practice

Answer 1

• Clinical problem is identified
• 2 teams are developed - research team and appraisal team
• 1 team - gathers evidence and data and then creates a systematic review
• 2nd team - appraises the systematic review and gets opinions from patients and other people involved
• creates clinical guidelines = better informed decisions

Question 2

P value

Answer 2

Determines if the study is significant or not
<0.05 = significant
>0.05 = not significant

Question 3

Worst kind of evidence based

Answer 3

1. Bad Data
2. AI involved
3. Friendly editor
4. multiple submissions
5. fake peer review
6. sell authorship
   = SERIOUS HARM

Question 4

Techniques for generating better evidence

Answer 4

• Cochrane bias removal: blind presenting bata
• Registered reports: send to publishers before data collection
• slow down: less research, better quality research for the right reason
• Training
• James Lind Alliance

Question 5

Define EBP

Answer 5

EBP is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients

Question 6

Scope of EBP healthcare

Answer 6

• patient safety and outcomes
• justifying decisions

Question 7

List and briefely explain the 5 steps that make up the EBP process

Answer 7

1. Ask - make a PICO
2. Access - access information and data
3. Critically appraise - appraise the quality of the data
4. Apply the data to the patient
5. Audit - how did you go, what would you do differently

Question 8

Key information healthcare professional should consider when involved in research

Answer 8

the reliability, validity and relevance of the evidence

Question 9

Just in case vs just in time information

Answer 9

Just in case = research done in the background, proactively
just in time = acquirely knowledge or data precisely when needed to make clinical decisions

Question 10

PICO format

Answer 10

P - population
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome