Evidence based practice Introduction - preliminary self-assessment


1. Evidence based practice

One answer only.
   is a set of prescribed rules of how to practise professionally
   eliminates the need for individual clinical expertise
   must involve doing research.
   ignores individual patients’ differences
   makes use of best external evidence


2. The following are steps in evidence based medicine

Choose 3 of the following options.
   carrying out a survey
   formulate a question
   evaluate the evidence for its relevance to a particular patient
   applying useful evidence to a particular patient
   analysis of statistical data


3. The following are advantages of evidence based practice.

Choose 3 of the following options.
   Evidence is quick to find.
   It gives the team a framework for group problem solving and teaching.
   Evidence is available on any topic.
   It enables professionals to upgrade their knowledge base routinely
   It ensures that the best evidence to date is applied.


4. You need to find evidence on which treatment is more effective for the treatment of a condition. Which of the following type of evidence would you look for IN THE FIRST INSTANCE?

One answer only.
   Randomised controlled trials
   Inceptive cohort studies
   Cross-sectional studies
   Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
   Qualitative studies


5. You need to find evidence on the prognosis of a patient. Which of the following type of evidence would you look for?

One answer only.
   Randomised controlled trials
   Inceptive cohort studies
   Cross-sectional studies
   Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
   Qualitative studies


6. In your first step during a Medline search, you sought for ‘physiothera$’ in the title. Which of the following articles will you retrieve? Articles with the word

Choose 2 of the following options.
   physiotherapist
   physiotherapists
   physiology
   physiologists
   psychotherapist


7. In a Medline search, you sought for the words “daily and living” in the title for articles published between 1966 and 2001, and retrieved over 5,000 articles. Which of the following strategies would reduce the number of articles retrieved?

Choose 3 of the following options.
   Change to ‘daily adj. living’
   Change to ‘daily or living’
   Restrict to articles published between 1990 and 2001
   Change to ‘dail$ and livi$’
   Restrict to randomised controlled trials only


8. In a Medline search, you want to search for articles on a particular topic related to primary care. Which of the following strategy is the most appropriate?

One answer only.
   Search for ‘primary adj. care’ in the title
   Search for ‘primary care’ in the abstract
   Search for ‘primary care’ as MESH heading
   Search for ‘primary care’ as text words
   Search for ‘primary or care’ in the title