Ebp 1: Essential Ebp Evidence Literacy

A good clinical question that will direct a search of the evidence for current, primary research studies consists of an intervention, target population, outcome, and comparison intervention.    

Databases of primary medical literature, such as PubMed/Medline, generally contain a compilation of only high quality evidence.

An electronic database such as PubMed can only be accessed from the university library.

Confidence intervals are a measure of clinical significance, and provide a way of estimating where the “true” result for any population lies.

The p-value is a measure of reliability.

Which study design is best for a study about therapy?

You have received a referral for a 38-year-old male client with chronic low back pain.  He sustained his injury at work and is employed as a plumber.  In addition to your standard chiropractic care, you are trying to decide if this man would benefit from using a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) unit, and from attending a series of group education sessions on chronic pain management.Write a focused clinical question which will help you organize search of the biomedical literature as well as help determine relevance of the results to your patient.