Strategies And Tools For Developing An Evidence-based Practice

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Question 1

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What type of study would be most appropriate if the nurse researcher is seeking to answer a question about the effectiveness of a particular treatment?

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Descriptive

Correlational

Exploratory

Quasi-experimental

Qualitative

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Question 2

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What type of study would be most appropriate if a nurse researcher wants to answer a question about a patient's likely course in a disease trajectory?

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Experimental

Longitudinal

Cross-sectional

Methodological

Quasi-experimental

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Question 3

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Skills needed to consult the literature and answer a clinical question are known as what?

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Informatics

Database searching

Information literacy

Evidence-based practice (EBP)

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Question 4

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What type of study would be most appropriate if a nurse researcher wants to determine if historical exposure to a specific water source is associated with later development of inflammatory bowel disease?

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Ex post facto design

Experimental design

Qualitative design

Therapeutic design

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Question 5

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In reviewing product materials, which reported precision confidence interval (CI) would make the nurse researcher interested in purchasing the product?

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CI of 2-100 mm

CI of 15-75 mm

CI of 25-75 mm

CI of 2-5 mm

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Question 6

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What term is used for the ability of a test or technique to detect a disease when present?

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Specificity

Confidence interval

Survival curve

Sensitivity

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Question 7

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Which type of research findings are considered the strongest available evidence?

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Meta-analysis

Descriptive

Case study

Narrative

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Question 8

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Which database is most likely to yield the highest-level evidence for a nurse researcher?

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Psychological abstracts

Google.com

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)

Cochrane Review

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Question 9

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Which term is used to describe the reduction of risk because of an experimental treatment?

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Relative risk reduction

Number needed to treat

Control event rate

Absolute risk reduction

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Question 10

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To assess the efficacy of a specific intervention, which type of clinical category should the student investigate in appraising study results?

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Therapy

Sensitivity and specificity

Prognosis

Harm

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Question 11

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The statistic a nurse researcher should choose to use in a meta-analysis is what?

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Survival curve

Odds ratio

Measure of central tendency

Measure of dispersion

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Question 12

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A nurse researcher critiquing a research study notes that a confidence interval (CI) is too large for a new therapy to be clinically meaningful. What likely contributed to this statistical outcome?

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Strong power level

Quantitative experimental design

Statistical analysis

Too small a sample

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Question 13

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In an experiment, when a value is obtained that shows no difference between the treatment and control group, the value is considered to be what?

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Causal

Sensitivity

Null

Positively predictive

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Question 14

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What is the significance of a diagnostic test with a large positive likelihood ratio?

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It provides only limited predictive value for disease.

It provides a high degree of certainty that the patient has the suspected disorder.

It mandates other supportive diagnostic tests.

It provides little assistance in clinical decision making.

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Question 15

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A nurse researcher reviewing an experimental study notices that one group received the "gold standard" treatment. This should be most accurately interpreted as what?

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Experimental treatment

No treatment

Nonconventional treatment

Current standard of treatment

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Question 16

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Applying study results to individual patients or to a specific patient population and communicating findings to patients in a meaningful way is the hallmark of what?

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Scientific perspectives

Clinical practice

Meta-analysis

EBP

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Question 17

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The vertical line in a graphic of a systematic review represents what?

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An odds ratio of 1

The 95% CI

The findings from an individual study

The amount of information in an individual study

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Question 18

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How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ratio greater than 1.0?

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This means there is no difference in the odds of an event occurring between the experimental and control groups.

The event is less likely in the treatment group than the control group.

The event is more likely to occur in the treatment group than the control group.

Percent increase in risk of the event that is added after considering the percent of risk that would occur anyway.

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Question 19

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How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ratio less than 1.0?

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This means there is no difference in the odds of an event occurring between the experimental and control groups.

The event is less likely in the treatment group than in the control group.

The event is more likely to occur in the treatment group than in the control group.

Percent increase in risk of the event that is added after considering the percent of risk that would occur anyway.

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Question 20

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How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret an odds ratio equal to 1.0?

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This means there is no difference in the odds of an event occurring between the experimental and control groups.

The event is less likely in the treatment group than in the control group.

The event is more likely to occur in the treatment group than in the control group.

Percent increase in risk of the event that is added after considering the percent of risk that would occur anyway.

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