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Evidence Based Practice: Beth Cloud, PHD, PT Jena Ogston, PHD, PT Peter Rundquist, PHD, PT
Evidence Based Practice: Beth Cloud, PHD, PT Jena Ogston, PHD, PT Peter Rundquist, PHD, PT
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establish and adopt best practice standards. Measurement tools Instruments Human
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Levels of Evidence
Study Classifications – Quantitative
• Intervention Studies
– Randomized controlled trials
– Quasi-experimental research designs
• Prognostic
– Cohort studies
– Case control studies
• Diagnostic Accuracy
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Study Classifications –
Interpreting the Literature
Diagnostic Accuracy
• Sensitivity • SNOut • Reliability
– % of cases who tested – If Sensitivity is very • Validity
positive among those that high a Negative test
have the disease will rule the disorder
• Responsiveness
Out
• few false negatives
Study Classifications –
Reliability
Diagnostic Accuracy
• Specificity • SPIn • The consistency of an instrument in
– % of cases who tested – If Specificity is very measuring what it is designed to measure
negative among those that high, a Positive test – Intra and Inter-Rater
do not have the disease will rule the disorder In
– Test-Retest
• few false positives
– Relative
– Absolute
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(MeSH) Terms: • Assist with focusing the MEDLINE/PubMed PICO Trip PICO PubMed Clinical Queries
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
scope of a search
• Purpose: “provide a
• Basic Boolean operators
hierarchically-organized
terminology for indexing – AND
and cataloging of – OR
biomedical information” – NOT
• Search for MeSH terms: • Search engines may
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBr automatically use or
owser.html
facilitate use of these
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Purpose of CPGs
1. Make evidence based practice efficient
and realistic
2. Make the best available research
evidence directly applicable to clinical
practice
3. Integrate research evidence with
knowledge from clinical experts
4. Consider research evidence with
consideration for patient perspectives
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