Across
- 1. influence that produces a distortion or error
- 4. troubling condition
- 7. the techniques researchers use to structure a study and to gather and analyze information relevant to the research question
- 9. served as the basis for regulations affecting research sponsored by the US Government
- 10. imposes a duty on researchers to minimize harm and maximize benefits
- 11. absractions inferred from situations or behaviors
- 12. bond or connection between phenomena
- 16. summarizes the study goals
- 18. trial run in a clinical setting to test an EBP protocol
- 19. self adminstered. Respondents read the questions and give their answers in writing
- 20. pseudointervention presumed to have no therapeutic value
Down
- 2. several critera to assess the rigor of a study
- 3. degree to which research findings can be to individuals other than study participants
- 5. group of participants whose performance on an outcome is used to evaluate the performance of the treatment group on the same outcome
- 6. achieved through accurate measuring tools, controls over confounding variables and powerful statistical methods
- 8. the ability to detect true relationships among variables
- 13. specific queries researchers want to answer in addressing the problem ResearchUtilization
- 14. provide articles free of charge online
- 15. expands a search term to include all forms of the root word
- 17. involve several rounds of questioning with an expert panel to achieve consensus