What 3 things make up EBD? - ANSWER Clinically Relevant Evidence (emphasis in class)
Clinical Skill & experience
Patient needs & preferences
What are the 5 A's of the EBD decision making process? - ANSWER Asking (how to ask
question and formulate PICO)
Acquiring (searching)
Appraising (assess the evidence)
Applying (how does it apply to patient)
Assessing (how well did treatment turn out)
What are Background questions? - ANSWER Questions we have to ask to know what the
PICO is all about.
General knowledge
google search
not really evidence
What is the Foreground question? - ANSWER It is the PICO
Formulated to help facilitate a search
What is PICO? - ANSWER P: patient, population, or condition
I: intervention
C: comparison
O: outcome
, How do you get from the PICO to your Search terms? - ANSWER Asking a Focused
clinical question: shorter/concise question
The Search terms are in the Focused clinical question
What are the 4 main types of PICOs? Give a short description of each type - ANSWER
Therapy: using a form of care (compared to gold standard care) to treat a patient
Diagnosis: how well a diagnostic tool works (compared to gold standard)
Prognosis: finding the long term consequences of a patient behaviour or environmental
factors
Causation: Asking about how an exposure might lead to a particular condition
What are the basic measurements of disease frequency? - ANSWER Count
Proportion
Ratio
Rates
Incidence and Incidence Rate
Prevalence
define Count - ANSWER The number of persons in a group who have a particular
disease
define Proportion ANSWER A fraction in which the numerator is included in the
denominator (# affected / total)
define Ratio ANSWER A fraction in which the numerator is Not included in the
denominator 1 dentist for every 1000 people, 1:1000
define Rates ANSWER A change in one quantity per unit time
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