EBM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
True or False: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) places the observations of individual clinicians at the
lowest level of hierarchy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When looking at therapy or harm,which of the following best defines the acronym PICO? (Choose 4)
Select one or more:
a. Patients
b. Outcome
c. Comparison
d. Prognosis
e. Intervention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Patients
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
True or False: Making the mistake of concluding that treatment and control differ when, they actually do
not is a Type II error. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Which of the following are the best description of the three fundamental principles of Evidence based
medicine (EBM)? (choose 3)
a. EBM provides guidance to trustworthiness
b. Extensive knowledge of statistics is essential
c. Decisions must weigh the risks and benefits
d. Clinicians must be aware of the best available evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Clinicians must be
aware of the best available evidence, EBM provides guidance to trustworthiness, Decisions must weigh
the risks and benefits
, Which of the following examples is at the highest level in the hierarchy of Evidence Based Medicine
(EBM)?
Select one:
a. Summaries and Guidelines
b. Clinical case studies
c. Animal stuies
d. Randomized Controlled Trials - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Summaries and Guidelines
Which of the following terms is generally considered equivalent to the Odds Ratio?
Select one:
a. Relative Risk
b. Relative Risk Reduction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relative Risk
When the impact of treatment is expressed as the number of patients who would have to receive
treatment in order to prevent an adverse event, it is referred to as which of the following terms?
a. Numbers Needed to Treat
b. Number Needed to Harm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Numbers Needed to Treat
Which of the following term is defined as, the range in which the true value of a parameter actually lies?
a. Confidence Interval
b. Relative Risk
c. Odds Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Confidence Interval
As relevant to physician assistants, searching for evidence is best described which of the following?
True or False: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) places the observations of individual clinicians at the
lowest level of hierarchy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When looking at therapy or harm,which of the following best defines the acronym PICO? (Choose 4)
Select one or more:
a. Patients
b. Outcome
c. Comparison
d. Prognosis
e. Intervention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Patients
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
True or False: Making the mistake of concluding that treatment and control differ when, they actually do
not is a Type II error. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Which of the following are the best description of the three fundamental principles of Evidence based
medicine (EBM)? (choose 3)
a. EBM provides guidance to trustworthiness
b. Extensive knowledge of statistics is essential
c. Decisions must weigh the risks and benefits
d. Clinicians must be aware of the best available evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Clinicians must be
aware of the best available evidence, EBM provides guidance to trustworthiness, Decisions must weigh
the risks and benefits
, Which of the following examples is at the highest level in the hierarchy of Evidence Based Medicine
(EBM)?
Select one:
a. Summaries and Guidelines
b. Clinical case studies
c. Animal stuies
d. Randomized Controlled Trials - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Summaries and Guidelines
Which of the following terms is generally considered equivalent to the Odds Ratio?
Select one:
a. Relative Risk
b. Relative Risk Reduction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relative Risk
When the impact of treatment is expressed as the number of patients who would have to receive
treatment in order to prevent an adverse event, it is referred to as which of the following terms?
a. Numbers Needed to Treat
b. Number Needed to Harm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Numbers Needed to Treat
Which of the following term is defined as, the range in which the true value of a parameter actually lies?
a. Confidence Interval
b. Relative Risk
c. Odds Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Confidence Interval
As relevant to physician assistants, searching for evidence is best described which of the following?
