Week 3 Knowledge Check

A  Identify a clinical question and have each team member conduct a search on a different database.

B  Identify a focused clinical question and give it to a healthcare librarian to search CINAHL, PubMed, and other electronic databases as s/he thinks appropriate

C  Identify a clinical question, muddle around in CINAHL or PubMed to get a sense for the issues involved, focus the question, then ask a healthcare librarian to conduct searches

D  Identify a clinical question and search CINAHL and PubMed for systematic reviews on the topic

A  You can use it when you don’t know how to correctly spelling something

B  Using a CINAHL Heading allows you to use a Boolean operator

C  Using a CINAHL Heading retrieves all articles about the heading topic, not just those with the exact word or phrase

D  Using a CINAHL Heading limits the retrieval to research articles

A  All of these

B  None of the choices

C  National Institute of Nursing Research and American Nursing Association

D  Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and Joanna Briggs Institute

A  An evidence-based clinical practice guideline

B  A randomized clinical trial

C  A study with a large sample that tests an intervention

D  A qualitative study

A  The producers used a levels of evidence hierarchy to characterize the types of supporting evidence

B  The producers of the guideline will say so and a reference list is provided

C  A computerized database search was conducted before the recommendations were developed

D  The evidence for each recommendation is summarized and referenced

A  The broader the scope of the guideline, the more useful it is

B  The more focused the guideline, the more useful it is

C  Broad guidelines and focused guidelines can both be useful

D  An intermediate scope is most useful

A  As a educational tool for nurses and other providers

B  To guide agencies in developing protocols specific to their setting

C  To inform patients of the care they should expect

D  As a standard for nurse performance appraisal

A  Systematic review with random selection synthesis

B  Systematic review with qualitative synthesis

C  Systematic review with narrative synthesis

D  Systematic review with statistical synthesis

A  SR is another name for a literature review

B  One type of SR is a meta-synthesis

C  At the onset of conducting an SR, a decision is made to exclude studies based on quality, research design, and/or years of publication

D  The goal of SRs is to reach conclusions that represent the findings of a body of individual studies

A  Findings represent conclusions arrived at across studies

B  It can lead to conclusions based on findings from studies with diverse designs

C  Adhering to widely accepted methods reduces bias

D  It is best done by one person to control conflicting views