alternative time sampling - correct answers Time parameters that are set during a research project
Blinding - correct answers A research design in which the patient and provider do not know if the patient
is receiving the intervention being evaluated or a placebo.
case study - correct answers A type of research in which a single case is investigated and documented
over a specified period
Certification - correct answers A process in which a person, a institution or a program is a valuated and
re-organized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Cohort Research - correct answers A type of research that examines patterns of change, a sequence of
events or trends, over time within a certain population of subjects studied
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - correct answers Hey system of internal and external reviews
and audits of all suspects of an EMS system
convenience sampling - correct answers A type of research in which subjects are manually assigned to a
specific person or crew, rather than being randomly assigned; the least-preferred component of
research.
Credentialing - correct answers The process of obtaining verifying and assessing a practitioners
qualification to provide care for a specific health care agency
cross-sectional design - correct answers A daily collected method in which all data at one point in time
are collected, essentially serving as a snapshot of events and information
Descriptive - correct answers A research format in which an observation of an event is made but
Emergency medical service - correct answers A healthcare system designed to bring immediate on
scene, care to those in need along with Transport to a definitive medical care facility
, Ethical - correct answers A behavioral expected by a person or group, following a set of rules
Evidence base practice - correct answers Use of practices that have been proven to be effective in
improving. Patient outcomes strongly relies on the Reviewed literature, but incorporates the providers
experience and training and characteristics of the population.
Health care professional - correct answers A person who follow specific professional attributes that are
outlined in this profession
Inferential - correct answers A research format that uses a hypothesis to prove one findings from
another
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - correct answers A group or institution that follows a set of
requirements for reviewing propose research that the US public health services devise.
licensure - correct answers The process, whereby a state allows qualified people to perform a regulated
act
Literature review - correct answers A form of research in which the existing literature is reviewed, and
the research analyzes the collection of research to draw a conclusion.
Longitudinal design - correct answers You got a collection method in which information is collected very
sad time intervals, and not just at one time
Medical direction - correct answers Directions given to an EMS system or provider by physician
Mobile intensive care MICU - correct answers An early title given to an ambulance tell unit
Off-line (indirect) medical control - correct answers Medical direction given through a set of protocols,
policies, and/or standards.