Welcome to EBM Jeopardy

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Welcome to EBM Jeopardy

• Pick a category
• Pick a point value
• Get an answer
• Tell us the correct question
• Win points
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EBM Jeopardy
EBM/ Building Questions
Study Design
Searching for evidence
Critical Appraisal
Reviewing the data
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EBM/Building Questions for 100
ANSWER These kinds of questions ask for
specific knowledge about issues related to
managing a patient with a disorder.
QUESTION What are foreground questions?
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EBM/Building Questions for 300
ANSWER Patient problem, intervention,
comparison and outcome
QUESTION What are the parts of the PICO?
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EBM/Building Questions for 200
ANSWER The 4 most common types of questions
asked.
QUESTION What are therapy, diagnosis, etiology
(harm) and prognosis?
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EBM/Building Questions for 400
ANSWER The steps in the EBM cycle.
QUESTION What is Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply,
and Act?
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EBM/Building Questions for 500
ANSWER Components of the decision model for EBM.
QUESTION What are clinical expertise, sound
evidence and patient values?
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Study Design for 100
ANSWER This study design attempts to obtain
greater statistical power than could be achieved
by individual small studies.
QUESTION What is a meta-analysis?
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Study Design for 200
ANSWER A study design that involves an
intervention (an investigator-controlled
maneuver, such as a drug, a procedure or a
treatment) and investigates the effect the
intervention has on the study subjects.
QUESTION What is an experimental or controlled
trial study.
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Study Design for 300
ANSWER Starts with an exposure and follows the
patients forward to observe outcomes
QUESTION What is a cohort study?
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Study Design for 400
ANSWER Starts with an outcome and looks back to
identify an exposure.
QUESTION What is a case-control study?
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Study Design for 500
ANSWER Case-series, case-control,
cross-sectional and cohort studies.
QUESTION What are observational studies?
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Searching for evidence for 100
ANSWER Hierarchical arrangement of indexing
terminology for the Medline database.
QUESTION What is the Tree structure?
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Searching for evidence for 200
ANSWER A term that indicates a concept covered
in an article.
QUESTION What is a subject heading or MeSH
term?
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Searching for evidence for 300
ANSWER Collection of databases focusing on
clinical trials and systematic reviews.
QUESTION What is the Cochrane Library?
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Searching for evidence for 400
ANSWER Search strategies designed to retrieve
high quality evidence from published studies.
QUESTION What are the EBM filters or Clinical
Queries?
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Searching for evidence for 500
ANSWER The Scope Note.
QUESTION What feature shows the definition and
date a MeSH was added to the MEDLINE database?
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Critical Appraisal for 100
ANSWER A systematic tendency to produce an
outcome that differs from the underlying truth.
QUESTION What is bias?
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Critical Appraisal for 200
ANSWER The key issues of validity for a therapy
study.
QUESTION What are randomization, follow-up,
blinding, similar treatment, and similar groups
at the start of the trial?
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Critical Appraisal for 300
ANSWER Analyzing all patients based on their
initial randomization group.
QUESTION What is intention-to-treat?
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Critical Appraisal for 400
ANSWER People involved in the study are not
aware of who has been assigned to the treatment
and to the control.
QUESTION What is blinding?
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Critical Appraisal for 500
ANSWER Making sure that those making decisions
about patient eligibility and enrollment are
unaware of the arm of the study to which the
patient will be assigned.
QUESTION What is concealed allocation?
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Reviewing the data for 100
ANSWER The number of patients that need to be
treated with a specified therapy in order to
prevent one additional adverse outcome.
QUESTION What is Number-Needed-To-Treat?
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Reviewing the data for 200
ANSWER The arithmetic difference between the
rates of events in the experimental and control
group.
QUESTION What is the Absolute Risk Reduction?
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Reviewing the data for 300
ANSWER Quantifies the uncertainty in
measurements by indicating the range within which
the true value may lie.
QUESTION What is a confidence interval?
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Reviewing the data for 400
ANSWER Refers to the probability that any
particular outcome would have arisen by chance.
QUESTION What is a P value?
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Reviewing the data for 500
ANSWER This occurs when there is more
variation between the study results (in a
systematic review) than would be expected to
occur by chance alone.
QUESTION What is heterogeneity?
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Credits
Adapted from I.M.Quizitor97 which was produced by
Oregon Health Sciences University Department of
Internal Medicine (http//www.ohsu.edu/medicine/re
sidency/imquizitor.html) According to the
I.M.Quizitor website, these files are made
available courtesy of their developer, David
Shenson, MD, OHSU Internal Medicine Chief
Resident 1999-2000. They are free to download and
use for educational (non-commercial) purposes
only. Current version edited by Connie Schardt,
Medical Center Library, Duke University
September 2006.