DUMC Library - Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

Contents

EBM

Building Questions

Searching Literature

Appraising Evidence

EBM at Duke

Internet Resources

DUMCL Online

Users' Guides | Worksheets | Calculators/Prediction rules | Statistics | CAT Databases

Users' Guides to the medical literature
- Interactive Users' Guide [Duke users click on Access CGI]
  Aimed at users who seek expanded content and interactivity to help them understand the Users' Guides, this interactive website includes the full text of both the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and the Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. The site includes interactive worksheets, case scenarios, interactive calculators, and customized packages for clinical practitioners and teachers of EBM.
- User's Guides to the Medical Literature [Duke only]
  Provides a list with links to the full text articles from the JAMA series, the surgical series in the Canadian Journal of Surgery, and the orthopedic series in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
- Users' Guides to Evidence-based Practice
  The Centre for Health Evidence provides the complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
- How to Read a Paper- A series of full text articles by Trisha Greenhalgh published in BMJ.
  - Is my practice evidence-based? [editorial].
    BMJ 313 (7063): 957-8, 19 Oct 1996.
  - How to read a paper. The Medline database.
    BMJ 315 (7101): 180-3, 19 Jul 1997.
  - How to read a paper. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about).
    BMJ 315 (7102): 243-6, 26 Jul 1997.
  - Assessing the methodological quality of published papers. [see comments].
    BMJ 315 (7103): 305-8, 2 Aug 1997.
  - How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. Different types of data need different statistical tests.
    BMJ 315 (7104): 364-6, 9 Aug 1997.
    [ erratum BMJ 13 Sep 1997, 315 (7109):675].
  - How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.
    BMJ 315 (7105): 422-5, 16 Aug 1997.
  - How to read a paper. Papers that report drug trials.
    BMJ 315 (7106): 480-3, 23 Aug 1997.
  - How to read a paper. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests.
    BMJ 315 (7107): 540-3, 30 Aug 1997.
    erratum in BMJ, 11 Oct 1997, 315 (7113):942 ; erratum in BMJ, 17 Jan 1998; 316(7126):225.
  - How to read a paper. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses).
    BMJ 315 (7108): 596-9, 6 Sep 1997.
  - Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).
    BMJ 315 (7109): 672-5, 13 Sep 1997.
  - Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research).
    BMJ 315 (7110): 180-3, 20 Sep 1997.