Questions And Actual Answers.
red, dry skin: sign or symptom - Answer sign
loss of 8 degrees in ROM: sign or symptom - Answer sign
ecchymosis - Answer bruising, discoloration of the skin
ecchymosis: sign or symptom - Answer sign
Post injury ankle girth > than 3.5 cm than uninjured side: sign or symptom - Answer sign
delayed capillary refill: sign or symptom - Answer sign
point tenderness: sign or symptom - Answer could be either
stomachache: sign or symptom - Answer symptom
malaise - Answer a feeling of weakness, depression, or unease
malaise: sign or symptom - Answer symptom
limp: sign or symptom - Answer sign
which of the following would describe the "O" (outcome) in the question when using the PICO model?
Is it better to use an inclinometer or goniometer when measuring elbow flexion range of motion in post
surgical patients?
, 1. goniometer
2. post surgical patients
3. elbow flexion range of motion
4. inclinometer - Answer elbow flexion range of motion
which of the following are components of evidence based medicine?
1. clinician expertise
2. research
3. physician values
4. patient values
5. surgical options - Answer clinician expertise
research
patient values
which shows the definition of a false finding
1. the clinical test is positive and the reference standard is positive
2. the clinical test is negative but the reference standard (gold standard) is positive
3. the clinical test is negative and the reference stand is negative
4. the clinical test is positive but the reference standard ( gold standard) is negative - Answer 4. the
clinical test is positive but the reference standard (gold standard) is negative
publication of a research article ensures the quality of that particular study: t/f - Answer false
the ability to detect those patients that actually have the pathology as indicated bu the reference
standard (true positive rate)
1. specificity
2. negative predictive value
3. sensitivity
4. positive predictive value - Answer 3. sensitivity