PBL Session 2 · Q1.1 of 11

Lectures 5–6 · Hypothesis builder · 26 marks

Paper extract and scenario

Paper needed

PubMed 30922751: exercise programmes and vascular and inflammatory biomarkers in symptomatic peripheral arterial disease (3-arm RCT)

This question needs: The report's stated primary objective (abstract or introduction).

The paper is not in the course folder, so no extract is shown here. For the session: Extracts (abstract objective, Table 1, Table 2, Tables III–IV, statistical analysis paragraph) from PubMed 30922751.

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Scenario · PBL handout

Question 1 Scenario. Please note that all the questions relate to the specific report (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30922751/) and not to the study (there could be multiple reports of the same study reporting on the same aspect or different aspects). For this exercise, use only the report (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30922751/). However, when you are obtaining the information from studies, you should obtain the maximum information from all the reports of the study (if there are multiple reports of the same study). Please identify the following.

Your copy of the extract

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PBL2 Q1.13 marks

What was the primary objective of the authors in this report?

Quote from the paper

Hypothesis builder

The course frames the test (null) hypothesis around the minimal clinically important difference, not zero difference L6 p.12–15.

Population

Intervention

Comparator

Outcome

MCID

Units

Fill in the intervention, comparator, outcome and MCID to see the hypotheses.

Your answer

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