EPIC CLINICAL INFORMATICS STUDY GUIDE
2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GUARANTEED TO PASS
Moulding et al Answer; Multistep process of adoption of clinical
changes
1. Knowledge
2. Persuasion
3. Decision
4. Implementation
5. Confirmation
• MacDonald Answer; Assessment of full adoption and implementation
of clinical change
1. Practitioner's Stage of Readiness for change
2. Assessment of specific barriers to guideline use
3. Determination of appropriate level of intervention
4. Design of dissemination and implementation strategies
5. Evaluation
,• Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Answer; The generation
and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of
alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical
condition or to improve delivery of care.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse Answer; Provides a collection of
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• Who maintains the national guideline clearinghouse? Answer; AHRQ
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• CPG Algorithm typical steps Answer; Action
Conditional
Branch
Synchronization
• forest plot Answer; A graph that displays the point estimates and
confidence intervals of meta-analyses
• Crosses OR 1.0 on Forest Plot Answer; Not statistically significant
• Grades of recommendation of clinical guidelines Answer; A Directly
based on Level I evidence
,B Directly based on Level II evidence or extrapolated recommendations
from Level I
C Directly based on level III evidence or extrapolated from Level I or
Level II
D Directly based on level IV evidence or extrapolated from Level I, II or
III
• Level of Evidence IA Answer; Evidence from meta-analysis of
randomized controlled trials
• Level of Evidence IB Answer; Evidence from at least one RCT
• Level of Evidence IIA Answer; Evidence from at least 1 controlled
study without randomization
• Level of Evidence IIB Answer; Evidence from at least one other type
of quasi-experimental study
• Level of Evidence III Answer; Evidence from nonexperimental studies
such as comparative, correlation or case/control studies
• Level of Evicence IV Answer; Evidence from expert committee reports
or opinions or clinical experience of respected authorities, or both
, • Knowledge to Action Framework Answer; Identify
Adapt
Assess
Select
Monitor
Sustain
• KPI Answer; A statistical measure of how well a company is doing in a
certain area.
• Corpus Answer; collection (of writings or information); Ex. the corpus
of Shakespear's works; Cf. corpse
• Data indexing Answer; Optimization of database searching through
alternative to linear search by indexing sorted terms
• stopwords Answer; Words, such as a, the, and in, that are so commonly
used that they can hinder accurate record retrieval
• Tokenization in data index Answer; Breaking up a document into
individually searchable terms
2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GUARANTEED TO PASS
Moulding et al Answer; Multistep process of adoption of clinical
changes
1. Knowledge
2. Persuasion
3. Decision
4. Implementation
5. Confirmation
• MacDonald Answer; Assessment of full adoption and implementation
of clinical change
1. Practitioner's Stage of Readiness for change
2. Assessment of specific barriers to guideline use
3. Determination of appropriate level of intervention
4. Design of dissemination and implementation strategies
5. Evaluation
,• Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Answer; The generation
and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of
alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical
condition or to improve delivery of care.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse Answer; Provides a collection of
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• Who maintains the national guideline clearinghouse? Answer; AHRQ
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• CPG Algorithm typical steps Answer; Action
Conditional
Branch
Synchronization
• forest plot Answer; A graph that displays the point estimates and
confidence intervals of meta-analyses
• Crosses OR 1.0 on Forest Plot Answer; Not statistically significant
• Grades of recommendation of clinical guidelines Answer; A Directly
based on Level I evidence
,B Directly based on Level II evidence or extrapolated recommendations
from Level I
C Directly based on level III evidence or extrapolated from Level I or
Level II
D Directly based on level IV evidence or extrapolated from Level I, II or
III
• Level of Evidence IA Answer; Evidence from meta-analysis of
randomized controlled trials
• Level of Evidence IB Answer; Evidence from at least one RCT
• Level of Evidence IIA Answer; Evidence from at least 1 controlled
study without randomization
• Level of Evidence IIB Answer; Evidence from at least one other type
of quasi-experimental study
• Level of Evidence III Answer; Evidence from nonexperimental studies
such as comparative, correlation or case/control studies
• Level of Evicence IV Answer; Evidence from expert committee reports
or opinions or clinical experience of respected authorities, or both
, • Knowledge to Action Framework Answer; Identify
Adapt
Assess
Select
Monitor
Sustain
• KPI Answer; A statistical measure of how well a company is doing in a
certain area.
• Corpus Answer; collection (of writings or information); Ex. the corpus
of Shakespear's works; Cf. corpse
• Data indexing Answer; Optimization of database searching through
alternative to linear search by indexing sorted terms
• stopwords Answer; Words, such as a, the, and in, that are so commonly
used that they can hinder accurate record retrieval
• Tokenization in data index Answer; Breaking up a document into
individually searchable terms
