Open Directory - Health: Medicine: Evidence Based Medicine: Education
See also: - Features tutorials on practising and teaching this method of critical appraisal, with glossary of terms and self-evaluation questionnaire. Form the Department of Medicine at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. - Provides workshops, resources and background information for healthcare professionals, with research tools and educational material to download. Based at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford. - Learn to read clinical papers with confidence with courses on critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine - Critical review of six clinical practice guidelines development handbooks. - A tutorial on basic concepts, including a guide to searching literature and databases. From Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. - The advantages of the GRADE system for rating the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. - Provides tutorials and explanations of the principles of critical appraisal, using systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical practice guidelines. From the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. - A self-paced tutorial on the principles and processes, designed for healthcare practitioners and students. From the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA. - A five minute tutorial, with inbuilt self-assessment, from the Boston University Medical Library. - Resources and including evidence-based guidelines for primary care providers . From The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). - The University of Virginia School of Medicine presents a guide to using web-based medical search engines, with links to the major resources. - Categorized collection of evidence-based resources from the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy. - Interative tips from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine on formulating clinical questions and conducting critical appraisals, accompanying the text "Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM". - Part I of a two part series on how to select and interpret diagnostic tests to confirm or exclude a diagnosis, using a full working example. [PDF] - Part II of a two part series on how to select and interpret diagnostic tests to confirm or exclude a diagnosis, using a full working example. - Collection of reports explaining the process of preparing systematic reviews. A free supplement of Annals of Internal Medicine. - Explains the use of confidence intervals in testing hypotheses. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal. [English and French] - Describes how to estimate a treatment's effectiveness and explains the concepts of risk reduction, and number needed to treat. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal. [English and French] - Teaching tips on confounding variables and the statistical adjustment for differences in prognostic variables. From the Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. - Discriminates odds from risks, and the nature of an odds ratio as an alternative to a risk ratio. From the Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. - Teaching tips on the use of clinical prediction rules in applying evidence consistently in everyday clinical practice. From the Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. - Teaching tips on using likelihood ratios. From the Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. - Reviews multiple alternative systems for rating the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations. - This web site offers information about what systematic reviews are, and how to conduct a systematic review.
