Question

Not all EBP projects result in statistically significant results. Define clinical significance, and explain the difference between clinical and statistical significance. How can you use clinical significance to support positive outcomes in your project?

Answer 1

EBP refers to evidence based practice, it helps by guiding in decision making with evidence at each and every level.The main 5 steps in EBP is ask a question, find information/ evidence to answer question, critically appraise the information, integrate appraised evidence with own clinical expertise, evaluate.

A statistically significant result refers to a relationship or a difference between the variables that was not caused by normal variation or chance. Clinical significance is essentiallya subjective interpretation of research findings as meaningful for patient under care and the health care providers believe that the finding is considerably enough to be medically solid proof to be applied as a guide in providing care for another patient.

In EBP, stastical statistics are determined prior to clinical significance. Clinical significance are subjective evaluation and cannot be established as a treatment of care with single experimental test.clinical significance used as positive outcome in projects by considering the result as statistically significant in future projects.