ULibraries Research Guides: Evidence Based Practice: Teaching Tools

EBP Tutorials and Teaching Toolkits

JAMAevidence
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

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
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:

What is Evidence-Based Practice? Day, E., LeMonnier, E., & Casucci, T. (Eds). (2025). Utah Education Network (UEN) Digital Press. (Original work published 2020-2022)

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