EBCR Exam 1 2024/2025 Exam
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What is evidence based practice? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Integrating clinical
expertise with the best available clinical evidence from systemic research
Evidence does NOT replace clinical expertise, it DOES inform our
decisions more fully
Ascertainment Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician draws a
conclusion based on previously held
expectations of a particular outcome
(e.g., a physical therapist determines
that a woman is catastrophizing her
back pain experience because she has
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,expressed job dissatisfaction)
Confirmation Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician selectively
focuses on information that confirms
a hypothesis
(e.g., a physical therapist
remembers only those people with
adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder
who improved following application
of ultrasound and forgets those people
who did not improve with the same
technique)
Recency Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician believes that
a particular patient presentation or
response is a common (or uncommon) phenomenon
because it is easily remembered (or is not easily remembered)
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,(e.g.,
a physical therapist believes that fibromyalgia is more common in men
than in women because her last two
patients with this diagnostic label
were male).
Representativeness Exclusivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician
draws conclusions about patient presentation or
response based only upon those people
who return for scheduled treatment
sessions
(e.g., a physical therapist
believes all people with Parkinson's
disease benefit from a particular balance program based on experience
with people who have completed an
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, episode of treatment versus those who
have not)
Value Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when the importance
of an outcome in the eyes of the
clinician distorts the likelihood of the
outcome occurring
(e.g., a physical
therapist's concern about undiagnosed
fractures in acute painful conditions
outweighs the data about prevalence
of fractures under specific situations).
General steps to EBPT Practice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Determine the
question to ask
2. Search for relevant studies
3. Critically appraise the evidence
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Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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What is evidence based practice? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Integrating clinical
expertise with the best available clinical evidence from systemic research
Evidence does NOT replace clinical expertise, it DOES inform our
decisions more fully
Ascertainment Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician draws a
conclusion based on previously held
expectations of a particular outcome
(e.g., a physical therapist determines
that a woman is catastrophizing her
back pain experience because she has
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,expressed job dissatisfaction)
Confirmation Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician selectively
focuses on information that confirms
a hypothesis
(e.g., a physical therapist
remembers only those people with
adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder
who improved following application
of ultrasound and forgets those people
who did not improve with the same
technique)
Recency Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician believes that
a particular patient presentation or
response is a common (or uncommon) phenomenon
because it is easily remembered (or is not easily remembered)
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,(e.g.,
a physical therapist believes that fibromyalgia is more common in men
than in women because her last two
patients with this diagnostic label
were male).
Representativeness Exclusivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a clinician
draws conclusions about patient presentation or
response based only upon those people
who return for scheduled treatment
sessions
(e.g., a physical therapist
believes all people with Parkinson's
disease benefit from a particular balance program based on experience
with people who have completed an
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, episode of treatment versus those who
have not)
Value Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when the importance
of an outcome in the eyes of the
clinician distorts the likelihood of the
outcome occurring
(e.g., a physical
therapist's concern about undiagnosed
fractures in acute painful conditions
outweighs the data about prevalence
of fractures under specific situations).
General steps to EBPT Practice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Determine the
question to ask
2. Search for relevant studies
3. Critically appraise the evidence
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