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Evidence Based Practice: Teaching Tools

Resources, tips, and tools for evidence-based practice in health care

EBP Tutorials and Teaching Toolkits

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An instructional resource from AMA, JAMAevidence teaches users about concepts fundamental to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM), including study design and the “validity, importance, and applicability of claims”. JAMAevidence includes key texts:
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
- The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-based Clinical Diagnosis
- Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience
- JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

Other EBP Tutorials and Toolkits:

Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
Tutorial from Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Students 4 Best Evidence (Cochrane)
Tutorials and fundamentals.
Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
(University of Oxford. England.)
Teaching EBM (BestBETs)
Best Evidence Topics (BETs)
EBM Toolkit
University of Alberta
Evidence-Based Medicine: Teaching Materials
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries
Evidence-Based Practice
McMaster University Health Sciences Library. Ontario.
Interprofessional Tutorial on EBP
Open Educational Resource providing an in-depth lesson on evidence-based practice from University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries.
Teaching EBM
Tips from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Toronto.

Statistics

Learn about Statistics:

Statistics: A Brief Overview
PubMed abstract > article free in PMC.
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Winters R, Winters A, Amedee RG.
Statistics: a brief overview.
Ochsner J. 2010 Fall;10(3):213-6.

PubMed PMID: 21603381; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3096219.
Finding and Using Health Statistics
This is a free course about health statistics from the US National Library of Medicine.

Statistics for the Health Sciences by Christine Dancey; John Reidy; Richard Rowe
Call Number: eBook
Medical Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis and Critical Appraisal by Jennifer Peat; Belinda Barton
Call Number: eBook
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3E by McMaster University Staff; Gordon Guyatt
Call Number: eBook
See JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

JAMA sources

JAMAevidence This link opens in a new window
An instructional resource from AMA, JAMAevidence teaches users about concepts fundamental to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM), including study design and the “validity, importance, and applicability of claims”. JAMAevidence includes key texts:
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
- The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-based Clinical Diagnosis
- Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience
- JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

Users' Guide to the Medical Literature (PubMed)
PubMed results for JAMA Users' Guides series.

Users' guides to the medical literature by Gordon Guyatt, editor
Call Number: Eccles Library Reference Office (WB 102 U84 2008 )
Publication Date: 2008
Guyatt's Users' Guides demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine.

Statistics and Research Methods - JAMA Collection
Most recent content is listed first. The collection includes content published from 1998 forward.

Books & eBooks

EBP related Books & eBooks:

How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh
Call Number: eBook (ProQuest)
Publication Date: 2019
Author Trisha Greenhalgh guides readers through each fundamental step of inquiry, from searching the literature to assessing methodological quality and appraising statistics.
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Third Edition by Gordon Guyatt
Call Number: eBook (JAMAevidence)
ISBN: 9780071794152
Publication Date: 2015
Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials by Fletcher, Robert et al
Call Number: eBook (Ebscohost)
ISBN: 9781469826257
Publication Date: 2014
Studying a Study and Testing a Test by Richard K. Riegelman
ISBN: 9781975120894
Publication Date: 2020

EBP Research Centers

EBP Research Centers:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Centre for Evidence-Based Research (CEBM)
University of Oxford.
Cochrane Collaboration
Health Information Research Unit (HIRU)
McMaster University
Centre for Reviews and Disseminations
University of York
National Quality Meaures Clearinghouse
AHRQ

Videos on evidence (for fun)

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