Testing Your Knowledge
The purpose of this exercise is to practice the steps in the EBP process with a new case. You will be given a case scenario to read. Then you should choose the best well-built clinical question and Medline search strategy to answer that question. Finally you will be asked to read a relevant article that addresses the clinical question and identify the validity issues for that study.
Choose among:
Case 1: Tamiflu for the seasonal flu
Case 2: Physical therapy for the knee
Case 3: Nursing staff and the cardiac surgery patient
Case 4: Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection
Revised July 2010