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What are the three ways for searching for evidence?

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  • informally, recreationally
  • focused, looking for answers
  • surveying existing literature
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Informally searching for evidence

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google searches, social media

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Focused, looking for answers

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  • usually related to questions that have occurred in a clinical setting
  • synthesizing information
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Surveying existing literature

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clarifying gaps in knowledge, clinical audit

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What is primary research?

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a single research study

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What is secondary research?

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synthesized findings, takes form of a literature review

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What is bias?

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a systematic error or deviation from the truth in resulsts of inferences

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What are the 6 types of study designs?

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  • intervention
  • diagnostic
  • aetiological
  • prognostic
  • screening intervention
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What are the types of bias found in intervention studies?

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  • allocation
  • detection
  • performed
  • attrition
  • measurement
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Allocation bias

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differences between treatment and control conditions at the start

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Detection

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differences in how treatment and control groups are assessed or measured

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Performed

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events other than intended occur during experiment

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Attrition

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some participants leave the study, or unwanted differences between groups

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Measurement

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outcomes measured inaccurately

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What is levels of evidence?

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to what degree, based on study design, can information be trusted

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What has occurred in secondary research?

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  • examine multiple primary sources
  • summarised research papers
  • combined findings to provide strong evidence
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What are Boolean operators?

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words/connectors placed between search terms to narrow or expand a search

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What are common Boolean operators?

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or, and, not

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What is truncation?

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identifies variations of a word without the need to individually enter each word

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What are wildcards?

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enables entering one search term to account for many different ways a word can be spelt, uses a question mark

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What is a federated search engine?

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allows the simultaneous search of multiple searchable resources - make a single query that is distributed to search engines in the federation

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What is the National Health and Medical Research Council?

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gvt organisation offering expert advice about health and medical research, ethical healthcare and health research

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What is an intervention study?

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a sample of patients are treated with the disorder and changes to the patient’s condition is measured
this is then compared to patients who were not treated

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What is a diagnotic study?

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measured how well an assessment identifies people with a specific disease

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What is an aetiological study?
measures association between people's exposure to a suspected hazard and rates of disease among the same people
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What is a prognostic study?
records what happens to people who have a specific health condition, especially in cases where the condition is untreated/
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What is a screening intervention?
a large number of people without signs are tested. Where the patient may have the condition, measure whether follow-up procedures lead to a benefit or harm
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Systematic reviews of RCTs
-level 1 +more reliable, less bias -expensive, time consuming, not good for new studies
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RCTs
-level 2 -participants are randomly selected into control and intervention groups +less bias, more reliable -issues with ethics
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Quasi
-non-randomised RCT +can use specific groups, doesn't take much time -more biased
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Cohort
-level 4 -observational study on a group of people over time -longitudinal, exposure, follow-up +specific -people not completing the follow-up (waste money)
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Case control
-comparative study with control and case groups -cause group has condition, other doesn't +allows researchers to look at specific cases -biased, can be hard to find people with a rare disease
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Cross section
-snapshot of a population at a given time -eg census +lots of information -reporting bias
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Anecdotes
-stories +takes into account people's experiences -lots of bias
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What is an experimental study?
- quasi and RCT - able to find a cause because two groups are compared - intervention
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What is an observational study?
- systematic review, cohort, case control, cross-sectional, anecdotes - cannot say one thing causes another as there are confounding variable s
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What are the types of biases involved in systematic reviews?
- publication - time lag - duplicated publication - outcome reporting - citation - database inclusion - language - reviewer's personal biases
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Publication bias
studies researching an unpopular topic don't get published --> evidence is unavailable
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Time lag bias
delays in publication prevent practitioners using research
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Duplicated publication bias
same results from the same study are repeatedly published, suggesting there is more evidence than there really is
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Outcome reporting bias
desirable, expected or statistically significant resulsts are published, even though other results are equally valid and informative
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Citation bias
reviewers are more likely to find a study cited by lots of authors
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Database inclusion bias
studies are more easily found if they are available from online databases
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Language bias
researchers will have a preference for studies published in their own langauge
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Reviewer's personal bias
reviews may unfairly exclude an article because they don't like the topic or result, even though the results are valid and relevant
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According to the NHMRC, what should be evaluated when choosing evidence?
- amount of evidence - quality of evidence - level of evidence - consistency of evidence - clinical importance - generalisabiliy - applicability
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What is a clinical practice guideline?
educational document with recommendations for patient care for a named health condition -doesn't tell health practitioners what to do, but gives an evidence-based suggestion

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