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Selected Keyword: EBP
Advanced literature searching
How to construct literature search enquiries using the thesaurus, focus or explode your search, use the search term taxonomy to refine your search and combine these methods into an advance search protocol.
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Release Date: 05 June 2008
Asking the right question
This RLO outlines why asking the right question can help in the search for evidence, and explains how to construct good questions using the PICO technique.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
Birth Prevalence
This RLO explores the concept of birth prevalence, a special type of prevalence defined as the percentage of a given population who have a particular disease in a given population at a given point in time or over a particular time period.
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Release Date: 10 June 2002
Case series and cross-sectional studies
Case series typically involve a much smaller number of patients than the more powerful case-control study or Randomised controlled trial (RCT). In this design patients with a known exposure to a treatment are tracked prospectively to identify new forms of disease or adverse effects. Case series can also be retrospective - here medical records are examined to identify a link between exposure and disease.
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Release Date: 14 June 2018
Cohort and case-controlled studies
This RLO explains what are case-control and cohort studies, and outlines the difference between them.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
Cohort Studies
This resource looks at cohort studies in relation to medical research and investigates medical disease and establishes links between risk factors and health outcomes.
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Release Date: 18 December 2018
Confidence intervals
This RLO defines the term 'confidence intervals' and demonstrates how they can be used to determine the significance and range of possible sizes of a treatment effect.
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Release Date: 04 September 2017
Designing a Questionnaire
This RLO introduces good practice in questionnaire design, step by step.
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Release Date: 01 February 2006
Determining the clinical importance of trial results
This RLO demonstrates how to interpret and use clinical trial data (ARR, RRR, NNT, NNH, and confidence intervals) in practice.
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Release Date: 14 March 2007
How to conduct a literature search
Practical examples of searching databases of journal articles (eg CINAHL, BNI), including screen movies of actual searches.
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Release Date: 27 July 2007
Meta-analysis
This RLO provides an introduction to the basic concepts of meta-analysis, which is an important and valuable tool for summarising data from multiple studies.
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Release Date: 27 September 2017
Numbers needed to treat and numbers needed to harm
This RLO considers how to measure and interpret the magnitude of effect in clinical trial results using number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH).
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Release Date: 17 August 2017
Positive and negative predictive value of diagnostic tests
This RLO explains how diagnostic test results are a combination of true and false positive, or true and false negative.
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Release Date: 02 February 2007
Presenting and interpreting meta-analyses
How to present and interpret the results of a meta-analysis using forest plots.
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Release Date: 28 June 2007
Qualitative and quantitative research
Outlining the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods of doing research.
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Release Date: 13 February 2017
Qualitative Data Analysis
The aim of this Reusable Learning Object (RLO) is to give you an idea of how qualitative data analysis is done. It's aimed at students studying evidence based practice or research methods, with a basic understanding of what qualitative research is.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
Relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction
This RLO considers how to measure and interpret the magnitude of effect in clinical trial results using relative risk reduction (RRR) and absolute risk reduction (ARR).
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Release Date: 29 March 2006
Search strategy for locating Randomised Controlled Trials
Introduction to search strategies for locating randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in online databases.
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Release Date: 05 September 2005
Sensitivity and Specificity
This RLO explains how diagnostic test accuracy is described by the terms sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting disease. Specificity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting health.
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Release Date: 12 June 2018
SI Units and calculating unit changes
To identify what SI units are, when they are used, and how to calculate unit changes.
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Release Date: 26 October 2006
Steps in conducting a systematic review
This RLO outlines the five fundamental steps to conducting a systematic review of health care research so as identify, select and critically appraise relevant research.
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Release Date: 27 October 2005
Surrogate Outcomes
This RLO considers the type of evidence which should be used when making decisions about patient care.
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Release Date: 12 June 2018
Types of qualitative research
This RLO outlines the variety of types of qualitative research that there are. It's aimed primarily at students studying evidence based practice and research methods.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
Using databases to find journal articles
An introduction to online databases of journals relevant to nurses (eg CINAHL, BNI).
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Release Date: 20 September 2005
What are Journals?
This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types: Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of nursing, but the concepts are cross-discipline.
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Release Date: 05 June 2017
What is a randomised controlled trial?
This RLO outlines how Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) work.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
What is Evidence Based Practice?
This RLO introduces the concept of evidence based practice and explains, in outline, how evidence based practice is done.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
Why critique research?
Why published research needs to be appraised by readers.
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Release Date: 21 March 2017
Close Asking the right question
This RLO outlines why asking the right question can help in the search for evidence, and explains how to construct good questions using the PICO technique.
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Release Date: 11 June 2010
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Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons
Close Birth Prevalence
This RLO explores the concept of birth prevalence, a special type of prevalence defined as the percentage of a given population who have a particular disease in a given population at a given point in time or over a particular time period.
Link to Resource: View Birth Prevalence
Release Date: 10 June 2002
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Close Case series and cross-sectional studies
Case series typically involve a much smaller number of patients than the more powerful case-control study or Randomised controlled trial (RCT). In this design patients with a known exposure to a treatment are tracked prospectively to identify new forms of disease or adverse effects. Case series can also be retrospective - here medical records are examined to identify a link between exposure and disease.
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Release Date: 14 June 2018
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- Liz Hilton
- Kamila Januszewicz
Close Cohort and case-controlled studies
This RLO explains what are case-control and cohort studies, and outlines the difference between them.
Link to Resource: View Cohort and case-controlled studies
Release Date: 11 June 2010
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Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons
Close Cohort Studies
This resource looks at cohort studies in relation to medical research and investigates medical disease and establishes links between risk factors and health outcomes.
Link to Resource: View Cohort Studies
Release Date: 18 December 2018
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Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Liz Hilton
- Kamila Januszewicz
Close Confidence intervals
This RLO defines the term 'confidence intervals' and demonstrates how they can be used to determine the significance and range of possible sizes of a treatment effect.
Link to Resource: View Confidence intervals
Release Date: 04 September 2017
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Close Determining the clinical importance of trial results
This RLO demonstrates how to interpret and use clinical trial data (ARR, RRR, NNT, NNH, and confidence intervals) in practice.
Link to Resource: View Determining the clinical importance of trial results
Release Date: 14 March 2007
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Author(s)
- Elaine Bentley
- Paul Garrud
- Julia Lacey
- Briony Leighton
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Close Meta-analysis
This RLO provides an introduction to the basic concepts of meta-analysis, which is an important and valuable tool for summarising data from multiple studies.
Link to Resource: View Meta-analysis
Release Date: 27 September 2017
Keywords
- EBP
- Research
- meta-analysis
- HTML5
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Close Numbers needed to treat and numbers needed to harm
This RLO considers how to measure and interpret the magnitude of effect in clinical trial results using number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH).
Link to Resource: View Numbers needed to treat and numbers needed to harm
Release Date: 17 August 2017
Keywords
- EBP
- NNT
- NNH
- clinical trial
- HTML5
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Close Presenting and interpreting meta-analyses
How to present and interpret the results of a meta-analysis using forest plots.
Link to Resource: View Presenting and interpreting meta-analyses
Release Date: 28 June 2007
Keywords
- Research
- meta-analysis
- EBP
- quantitative synthesis
- forest plot
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Close Qualitative Data Analysis
The aim of this Reusable Learning Object (RLO) is to give you an idea of how qualitative data analysis is done. It's aimed at students studying evidence based practice or research methods, with a basic understanding of what qualitative research is.
Link to Resource: View Qualitative Data Analysis
Release Date: 11 June 2010
Keywords
- Research
- EBP
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- qualitative research
Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons
Close Sensitivity and Specificity
This RLO explains how diagnostic test accuracy is described by the terms sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting disease. Specificity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting health.
Link to Resource: View Sensitivity and Specificity
Release Date: 12 June 2018
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Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Caroline Burton
- Liz Hilton
Close SI Units and calculating unit changes
To identify what SI units are, when they are used, and how to calculate unit changes.
Link to Resource: View SI Units and calculating unit changes
Release Date: 26 October 2006
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Linked Clinical Procedures
- Essential Care Skills for CFP
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Close Types of qualitative research
This RLO outlines the variety of types of qualitative research that there are. It's aimed primarily at students studying evidence based practice and research methods.
Link to Resource: View Types of qualitative research
Release Date: 11 June 2010
Keywords
- EBP
- Research
- qualitative research
Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons
Close What are Journals?
This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types: Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of nursing, but the concepts are cross-discipline.
Link to Resource: View What are Journals?
Release Date: 05 June 2017
Download the RLO ["What are Journals?"] Content Package
Keywords
- EBP
- Study skills
- Journals
- HTML5
- referencing
Author(s)
- Jenny Coombs
- Wendy Stanton
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Close What is a randomised controlled trial?
This RLO outlines how Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) work.
Link to Resource: View What is a randomised controlled trial?
Release Date: 11 June 2010
Keywords
- EBP
- rct
- clinical trial
- Pharmacology
- Research
Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons
Close What is Evidence Based Practice?
This RLO introduces the concept of evidence based practice and explains, in outline, how evidence based practice is done.
Link to Resource: View What is Evidence Based Practice?
Release Date: 11 June 2010
Keywords
Author(s)
Developer(s)
- Julian Tenney
- Stephen Timmons