Image from SlideShare: Evidence Based Medicine Presenter : Dr. Suhasini K. Dept. Community Medicine J.N.M.C., Belagavi 23 January 2015. Slide No. 53 of 79.
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Therapy Question - A question concerning the effectiveness of a treatment or preventative measure
Prognosis Question - A question concerning outcome of a patient with a particular condition
Diagnosis Question - A question concerning the ability of a test to predict the likelihood of a disease
Harm Question - question concerning the likelihood of an intervention to cause harm
Closer to the top of the pyramid, the study designs are more rigorous and allow for less bias or systematic error. Image courtesy of Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Introduction to Evidence-based Medicine Tutorial.
These are a few of the publication types associated with evidence-based practice taken from the Glossary of EBM Terms from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Toronto. A more detailed list can be found in the Study Designs document from the National Library of Medicine.