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foundational questions about a clinical issue
ex: what is cachexia and what is its physiology |
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| represent an effort to distill a body of knowledge into a usable form; often based on systematic reviews and give specific recommendations for evidence-based decision making |
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| clinical practice guidelines |
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| this helps providers make good decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions |
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| a quick summary of a clinical question an an appraisal of the best evidence and it typically begins with a "clinical bottom line" |
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| critically appraised topics |
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| these rank evidence sources according to the strength of the evidence they provide |
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| these can be answered based on current best research evidence on diagnosing, assessing, or treating patients, or on understanding the meaning, cause or prognosis of their health problems |
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| the extent to which an innovation is amenable to implementation in a new setting, an assessment of which is often made in an evidence-based practice project |
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| a technique for integrating quantitative research findings statistically. It treats individual studies as one unit of analysis |
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| the grand narratives or interpretive translations produced from the integration or comparison of findings from qualitative studies |
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| a technique for quantitatively integrating the results of multiple studies addressing the same or similar research questions |
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| A small scale version or trial run done in preparation for a major study |
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| a rigorous and systematic synthesis of research findings on a research question |
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