Who is considered the 'father' of evidence-based medicine? - ANSWER Archie Cochrane
Who wrote the most accepted definition of the EBM (EBD) process? - ANSWER David
Sackett
What are the 3 main components in EBM (EBD) decision-making? - ANSWER Best
Evidence, Clinical Expertise, Patient Values
What are the similarities of EBD to the scientific method? - ANSWER Exactly Equivalent
What is an evidence pyramid or graph? - ANSWER Ranking of Relative Quality of
Evidence
What statistical approach combines evidence of many studies to find a trend? -
ANSWER Meta-Analysis
What are the limits to your discovery of evidence? - ANSWER Access, Type of Database,
Language
Which part of the manuscript process corresponds to "P-I-C-O"? - ANSWER Objective
Which terms define the letters in P-I-C-O? - ANSWER Population, Intervention,
Comparison, Outcome
What is the reason for writing a PICO question? - ANSWER Helps Narrow Search
, Which terms do NOT go with P? (Gender, age, treatment, disease) - ANSWER Treatment
Which terms do NOT go with C? (Control, Result, Sham, or Target)? - ANSWER Result
Is it possible to have a P-I-O question? - ANSWER YES
What are some examples of categories of PICO questions? - ANSWER Diagnosis,
Etiology, Prevention, Prognosis, Harm, Therapy
What do you need to access CLOSED internet portals? - ANSWER ID/PW or License
Bing, Google, and Yahoo perform searches using which 2 tools? - ANSWER Indexes and
Algorithms
Best Practice for a good internet search includes what approach? - ANSWER Several
Highly Specific Keywords
What are 3 examples of collections of DERIVED evidence? - ANSWER Cochrane
Collaboration, ADA EBD Library, Trip Database
Does GOOGLE SCHOLAR search the content in the WEB OF SCIENCE? - ANSWER NO
What evidence is included in the GRAY LITERATURE? - ANSWER Abstracts, Registries,
Dissertations, Technical Brochures
What are the BARRIERS to using the GRAY LITERATURE? - ANSWER Inconsistency,
Access, Indexing, Archiving Content
MEETING ABSTRACTS precede traditional publication by how long? - ANSWER 1-3
Years
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