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Audiologic Rehabilitation: Where’s the Evidence?

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1.  The systematic reviews of Hawkins and Sweetow and Palmer revealed a large body of high quality evidence supporting the efficacy of post-fitting audiologic rehabilitation.
  1. There is NOT a large body of evidence supporting the efficacy of post-fitting audioloigic rehabilitation
  2. There is a large body of evidence supporting the efficacy of post-fitting audiologic rehabilitation
  3. Time spent doing audiologic rehabilitation is too long
  4. None of the above
2.  Which of the following is NOT a component of evidence-based practice?
  1. Develop a patient-driven question
  2. Conduct an evidence search
  3. Evaluate the evidence
  4. Conduct the experiment
  5. Determine the recommendation grade
3.  The “C” in PICO stands for:
  1. Clinical
  2. Case study
  3. Citation of evidence
  4. Correlation
  5. Comparison
4.  What is considered the lowest form of evidence?
  1. Expert opinion
  2. Peer reviewed data
  3. Surveys of current literature
  4. All of the above
5.  The development of the smallpox vaccine is the result of what type of study design?
  1. Randomized control
  2. Cross over
  3. Case series
  4. Cohort
6.  Cohen’s d is a measure of
  1. Statistical significance
  2. Effect size
  3. Correlation
  4. Reliability
7.  A statistical method that pools the results of several small studies in order to reveal treatment effects that might not otherwise be evident in the individual studies is known as a:
  1. Meta-analysis
  2. Randomized control trial
  3. Systemic review
  4. Repeated measures analysis of variance
8.  The value of the practitioner’s knowledge and experience is recognized within what?
  1. Gamification
  2. The current model of evidence-based practice
  3. Meta-analysis
  4. Comparison studies
9.  Which of the following is NOT considered a major influence in the transformation of healthcare access and delivery:
  1. Rising healthcare costs
  2. Decline in chronic diseases
  3. Rapid advances in healthcare-related technologies
  4. Growth of biotech industries
  5. Emergence of tech-savvy consumers
10.  AR applications such as LACE™ and ReadMyQuips™ capitalize on a feature that taps into the human desire for competition and reward. This feature is known as:
  1. Gamification
  2. Compensation
  3. Realization
  4. Falsification
  5. Simplification