Across
- 2. yea-saying
- 5. performed within or on living organisms
- 9. most basic population unit about which information is collected
- 11. EBP model used for individual clinicians
- 13. right to fair treatment and right to privacy
- 14. assess effectiveness of clinical interventions that unfold in a series of phases
- 19. researchers make observations without intervening
- 20. what would have happened to the same people simultaneously exposed and not exposed to a causal factor
- 21. what the C stands for in PICO
- 23. process of selecting a portion of the population
- 24. means of summarizing key aspects of a study systematically
Down
- 1. type of variable that influences strength or direction of relationship between two variables
- 3. ability to detect true relationships among variables
- 4. crucial factor in selecting a problem
- 6. where researchers intervene
- 7. self-administered surveys
- 8. gather data from the same people
- 10. systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of importance to nurses
- 12. abbreviation for institution that affirms the stature of nursing research in US
- 15. effects from manipulated independent variables
- 16. database widely recognized as premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature
- 17. concerns inferences from the particular exemplars of a study
- 18. cohort of people is tracked over time to see if subsets of people with different risk factors differ in terms of subsequent outcomes
- 22. not even researchers know participants' identity