Evidence Based Medicine

Who introduced the term 'evidence-based medicine' (EBM) to educate clinicians in assessing the credibility of research evidence and applying the results to their daily practice?

• David Sackett

• David Eddy

• Archie Cochrane

• Gordon Guyatt

What does Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in the health care system entail?

• Utilization of patient values and preferences only

• Utilization of multiple knowledge resources including scientific literature and clinical expertise

• Utilization of clinical expertise only

• Utilization of only scientific literature

What is the Cochrane Collaboration known for?

• Providing unreliable information

• Being a systematic review organization

• Being a pharmaceutical company

• Being a medical school

What is the purpose of a metasearch engine?

• To provide irrelevant results

• To index information

• To decrease the relevancy of a result

• To unify results from multiple search engines

Which database focuses on psychology and related social science fields?

• PubMed

• EMBASE

• CINAHL

• PsycINFO

What does evidence-based medicine (EBM) encourage clinicians to do?

• Ignore the evidence available from the study

• Rely solely on the evidence available from the study

• Use their expertise to interpret and apply the evidence in the context of each patient's situation

• Blindly follow research evidence without considering their own experience

What is the role of clinicians in critically appraising the quality and applicability of evidence?

• To blindly follow the evidence

• To adapt and apply the evidence in the context of each individual patient's situation

• To ignore the evidence available from the study

• To rely solely on the evidence available from the study

What is the main focus of EMB?

• To use clinical expertise only

• To adapt and apply the evidence in the context of each individual patient's situation

• To utilize multiple knowledge resources including scientific literature and clinical expertise

• To blindly follow research evidence

What is the purpose of the Cochrane Collaboration?

• To decrease the relevancy of a result

• To provide unreliable information

• To enhance healthcare knowledge and decision-making

• To index information

What is the role of clinicians in evidence-based practice?

• To use their expertise to interpret and apply the evidence in the context of each patient's situation

• To rely solely on the evidence available from the study

• To blindly follow research evidence without considering their own experience

• To ignore the evidence available from the study