References
Textbooks
JAMAEvidence
Fundamental tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses. Includes online version of the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature (2008) and The Rational Clinical Examination (2009). http://www.jamaevidence.com/
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Maureen O. Meade, and Deborah J. Cook. 2008
Sharon E Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou and R. Brian Haynes. Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. 3nd edition. Elsevier, 2005.
What is EBM?
Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine. JAMA 1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5. http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/ebm.asp
Sackett, D. Evidence-based Medicine - What it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996; 312:71-72. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/312/7023/71
Lang, Eddy. The why and the how of evidence-based medicine. McGill Journal of Medicine 2004 8:90-94. http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/courses/ebm600/lang.pdf
Well-Built Clinical Question
Richardson WS, Wilson MC, Nishikawa J, Hayward RSA. The well-built clinical question: a key to evidence-based decisions. ACP Journal Club. Nov-Dec 1995;123;A12.
The Literature Search
PDQ Evidence-Based Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition,by Ann McKibbon, is not only an excellent introduction to EBP but also provides search strategies for doing a literature search using MEDLINE, CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO, and EMBASE/Excerpta MEDICA. Order information from http://www.amazon.com
The FPIN Consortium has developed over the past ten years in response to a need to make evidence-based family medicine and clinical scholarship more accessible to family physicians in clinical practice. For more information see: http://www.fpin.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=71500
Evaluating the Evidence
These articles are from the first Users Guide series published in JAMA in 1994:
How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/therapy.asp
How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/diagnosis.asp
How to Use an Article About Prognosis
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/prognosis.asp
How to Use an Article About Harm
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/harm.asp
How to Use an Overview (Systematic Review)
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/overview.asp
Revised July 2010