Define a Clinical question
The questions arise in a patient encounter can easily be answered via the experience or reviewing a textbook or an article.these questions can be about harm,diagnosis, prognosis or treatment . In evidence based diagnosis kind of questions as above mentioned can be answered more accurately by following EBM steps. First the health care provider should make an answerable question which can be answered by a research study.These questions can be background or Foreground questions. a background questions often used to ask about the disorder, test, treatment and is presented by 6 “W’s; Who, When, Where, What, HoW& Why. Foreground questions has 4 components which are, 1.Patient, problem, or population
2.Intervention, exposure, …show more content…
Certain key words can be used from the question to directly search the literature. There are several resources of evidence literature that can be used to find the evidence. Those can be divided into
Primary literature - Research articles such as, CCT, Cohort Study, Case report,academic dissertation, Technical report, Conference Proceedings
Secondary literature- Pub Med,ISI, WOS
Tertiary literature- review, systematic review and meta analysis, guidelines
Evidence Based Texts-ACP,PIER,BEST PRACTICE,DYNAMED,MDCONSULT,MicroMedex,EMEDICINE,UPTODATE,ACCESSMEDICINE,
When choosing a resource it’s important to find an appropriate and more suitable search engine depending on workload and time.After finding the evidence it’s important to review and revise your evidence.
Evaluating the evidence.
There are thousands of new studies published about new diagnostic studies thus it’s important to figure which tests are valid. The steps of Evaluation comes at this points. Answering several questions can help with the evaluation of the tests.
1. Whether the test is relevant or not? Does the test address common or important conditions in the
The questions arise in a patient encounter can easily be answered via the experience or reviewing a textbook or an article.these questions can be about harm,diagnosis, prognosis or treatment . In evidence based diagnosis kind of questions as above mentioned can be answered more accurately by following EBM steps. First the health care provider should make an answerable question which can be answered by a research study.These questions can be background or Foreground questions. a background questions often used to ask about the disorder, test, treatment and is presented by 6 “W’s; Who, When, Where, What, HoW& Why. Foreground questions has 4 components which are, 1.Patient, problem, or population
2.Intervention, exposure, …show more content…
Certain key words can be used from the question to directly search the literature. There are several resources of evidence literature that can be used to find the evidence. Those can be divided into
Primary literature - Research articles such as, CCT, Cohort Study, Case report,academic dissertation, Technical report, Conference Proceedings
Secondary literature- Pub Med,ISI, WOS
Tertiary literature- review, systematic review and meta analysis, guidelines
Evidence Based Texts-ACP,PIER,BEST PRACTICE,DYNAMED,MDCONSULT,MicroMedex,EMEDICINE,UPTODATE,ACCESSMEDICINE,
When choosing a resource it’s important to find an appropriate and more suitable search engine depending on workload and time.After finding the evidence it’s important to review and revise your evidence.
Evaluating the evidence.
There are thousands of new studies published about new diagnostic studies thus it’s important to figure which tests are valid. The steps of Evaluation comes at this points. Answering several questions can help with the evaluation of the tests.
1. Whether the test is relevant or not? Does the test address common or important conditions in the