Week 3

Question 1

What are the processes for finding answers to clinical research questions?

Answer 1

The process for finding answers to clinical research questions in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) typically follows these key steps:

1. Formulate a Structured Clinical Question
   - using PICO
2. Identify Key Search Terms and Synonyms
   - Identify MeSH terms
3. Search for evidence
   - Pubmed, Cochrane libary, MEDLINE, index to chiropractic literature
4. Appraise the evidence
   - assess studies for:
   validity, relevance, level of evidence, bias
5. Apply evidence to clinical context
   - patient values and preferences, clinical setting, practitioner expertise
6. ## evaluate the outcome