Evidence Based Practice Flashcards
(23 cards)
ebp principles
- best research evidence
- professional & clinical expertise
- practice context
- client’s values and circumstances
quantitative
measuring and counting an outcome, larger groups
qualitative
understanding opinions, smaller groups
background questions
general
foreground
focused on the management of patients
types of foreground questions
effectiveness, prevention, assessment, description, risk
PICO
population, intervention, comparison, outcome
hypothesis
theory of results
method
- tools or techniques used in a study
- surveys, experiments, etc.
- what you do
methodology
- overarching strategy
- randomized controlled trial
- how and why you do it
perspective
looking forward, data that has not be collected yet
retrospective
looking back on previously acquired data
quantitative methodology
- heavily controlled
- numbers
- larger sample
quantitative methodology: descriptive
- describes current statue of a variable
- data collected by observation
- hypothesis is made after data collection
quantitative methodology: correlational
- non-experimental
- collecting data that is already there
- two groups
- two variables, neither are manipulated
quantitative methodology: experimental
- typical research
- scientific
- are manipulating
- cause and effect
- artificial environment
quantitative methodology: quasi-experimental
- partly experimental
- cause and effect
- are manipulating
- participants aren’t random
qualitative methodology
- open-ended
- no manipulation
- smaller sample
qualitative methodology: phenomenological
- views and perceptions of people with a experience
- specific population with a certain experience
qualitative methodology: ethnographic
- in cultural settings
- behaviours
- in natural habitat
qualitative methodology: grounded theory
- large subject matter
- explaining why people do things
- participants steer the outcome
qualitative methodology: participant action research
- researching a group you are in
- repeated cycles of experimenting
