Evidence Based Practice Week 1

Bias

Influences that distort the results of the study

Case study

Experience of one person, one group or one organization

Cohort

Group of people sharing common demographoc experience

Control

Group without the intervention

Dependability

Consistent results

Hawthorne Effect

Research subjects change their behavior because they are being watched

Inter-rater reliability

consistency between rates

P-value

Probability that results were due by chance

Pilot study

Small study to see if a larger study is warranted

Population

Demographics of who is in the study

Qualitative Research

Based on observation, experience, interviews and quality of interactions

Quantitative Reasearch

Based of numerical data

Random

Process of selecting groups with probability of being chosenR

Reliability

Provides consistent results

Significant

Probability to be true

Validity

Is the data accurate? Does it measure what it is supposed to