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?houry rounding.

Answer 1

(a) CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE:-It is the practical importance of a treatment effect or outcome whether it has a real genuine, palpable, noticeable effect on daily life.
-It is a change in a patient's clinical status that is important, whether or not it is due to an intervention in the context of a clinical trial.

(b) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLINICAL AND STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE:-
-Clinical significance is practical while Statistical significance is statistical.
-Clinical significance explore quantitatively differences between groups sampled from a population are due to chance While statistical significance occurs along a continuum.
-Clinical significance describes that observed effect is important in the treatment of a disease, diagnosis etc but statistical not.

(c)USE OF CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN PROJECT:- It can be used in project.
-it shows importance of a treatment effect or outcome whether it has a real genuine, palpable, noticeable effect on daily life.