Evidence-Based Medicine
Midterm | Practice
Questions, Study Guide &
Exam Review
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, What are the 3 major concerns in EBM? Quanity, Quality, Clinical Usefulness
What are some common Medical Information Sources?: Opinion, Case Studies, Narrative Review, Systematic Reviews, Textbooks,
POEMs, Clinical Guidelines, Clinical Trials
Examples of online databases UptoDate, PubMed, Medscape, Google Scholar
Stages of Competence Unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence,
unconscious competence
Statistical vs. Clinical Significance Statistical significance- are results due to chance?
Clinical significance- are results clinically meaningful?
Statistical significance does not imply clinical meaningfulness
How to write a drug name Brand is capitalized, generic is lowercase, generic used in PICO
What does PICO mean P- population I- intervention C-comparison O- outcome
Components of a good PICO population age, race (if relevant), gender, disease state
PICO Intervention types Adding, changing, removing, medication, surgical, non-surgical
Inside Comparison group The same population was split to get/not get intervention, a group defined by
the same PICO population, this is the best comparison
Outside Comparison group comparison to someone else's population in which the population is different,
often used if there can't be a true control (everyone already being treated), for
ethical reasons, or using previous data
Intervention/Comparison groups blinding constraint participants should not be able to tell which group they are in, blinding
prevents bias and protects validity, surgical intervention is discouraged,
placebos must be visually similar
Internal validity the degree to which changes in the dependent variable are due to the
manipulation of the independent variable
Midterm | Practice
Questions, Study Guide &
Exam Review
|Guaranteed success|
, What are the 3 major concerns in EBM? Quanity, Quality, Clinical Usefulness
What are some common Medical Information Sources?: Opinion, Case Studies, Narrative Review, Systematic Reviews, Textbooks,
POEMs, Clinical Guidelines, Clinical Trials
Examples of online databases UptoDate, PubMed, Medscape, Google Scholar
Stages of Competence Unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence,
unconscious competence
Statistical vs. Clinical Significance Statistical significance- are results due to chance?
Clinical significance- are results clinically meaningful?
Statistical significance does not imply clinical meaningfulness
How to write a drug name Brand is capitalized, generic is lowercase, generic used in PICO
What does PICO mean P- population I- intervention C-comparison O- outcome
Components of a good PICO population age, race (if relevant), gender, disease state
PICO Intervention types Adding, changing, removing, medication, surgical, non-surgical
Inside Comparison group The same population was split to get/not get intervention, a group defined by
the same PICO population, this is the best comparison
Outside Comparison group comparison to someone else's population in which the population is different,
often used if there can't be a true control (everyone already being treated), for
ethical reasons, or using previous data
Intervention/Comparison groups blinding constraint participants should not be able to tell which group they are in, blinding
prevents bias and protects validity, surgical intervention is discouraged,
placebos must be visually similar
Internal validity the degree to which changes in the dependent variable are due to the
manipulation of the independent variable
