Week 1

Question 1

Cost minimalisation

Answer 1

Choosing treatment based on cost

Question 2

What are patient values and preferences?

Answer 2

The best course of action for the client taking into account their needs as well as beliefs

Question 3

EVALUATE

Answer 3

Evaluative your performance

Question 4

What is clinical expertise?

Answer 4

Personal and professional expertise based on study and experience

Question 5

What is press cutting?

Answer 5

Basing clinical decisions off recent prints without taking other factors into consideration

Question 6

Expert opinion

Answer 6

Based on opinion of medical practitioner

Question 7

Five steps of EBP

Answer 7

Ask, acquire, appraise, apply, evaluate

Question 8

ACQUIRE

Answer 8

Decide which evidence will best answer the question

Question 9

APPLY

Answer 9

Implement your results into clinical practice

Question 10

ASK

Answer 10

Convert into answerable questions

Question 11

APPRAISE

Answer 11

Appraise evidence, assess validity and usefulness

Question 12

Triad Approach (3)

Answer 12

• Best Possible Research
• Clinical expertise
• Patient values and preferences

Question 13

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is best possible research?

Answer 14

A higher level of evidence which impacts the best available treatment

Question 15

What is decision making by anecdote

Answer 15

Treat patients based off experiences of ones own and colleagues of other similar patients and how they were treated rather than the individual patient themselves