Exam 19: Strategies and Tools for Developing an Evidence-Based Practice

What order would be most appropriate for these statements involving development of a focused clinical question, progressing from lowest level to highest level? A-What is the population of interest? B-To what will this intervention be compared? C-What is the intervention of interest? D-How will the intervention make things better or worse?

Which information regarding a new algorithm for pressure support surface selection should be interpreted as favorable for adoption of the algorithm? (Select all that apply.)

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

How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret a relative risk that is less than 1.0?

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?

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

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

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

Which questions determine a researcher's selection of a relevant, credible article? (Select all that apply.)

Absolute risk reduction is most accurately calculated as what?

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?

Therapy-type articles are associated with outcome variables that are categorized as what? (Select all that apply.)

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

How should the nurse researcher most accurately interpret a relative risk that is greater than 1.0?

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

Types of EBP clinical categories include what? (Select all that apply.)

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

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

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

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?