The EBP Team Is Attempting to Formulate an EBP Question

question 33

Multiple Choice

The EBP team is attempting to formulate an EBP question. When defining the question, the team should focus on what?

• A) Objectives to be accomplished
• B) Interventions or exposures
• C) Implementations to be accomplished
• D) Evaluation of the problem

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Definitions:

Cyclical Variation

Fluctuations in statistical or economic data that occur over regular periods due to seasonal, quarterly, or other cyclical patterns.

Deseasonalize

The process of removing seasonal effects from a dataset to better identify trends.

Centered Moving Average

A method of smoothing data by calculating averages of different subsets of the full data set to identify trends.

Quadratic Model

A statistical or mathematical model in which the relationship between the dependent variable and one or more independent variables is represented by a second-degree polynomial.