Welcome

What is EBP?

ASK
Clinical Question

ACQUIRE
Literature Search

APPRAISE
Evaluate Evidence

Test
Your Knowledge

Glossary (CEBM)

References

Feedback

Welcome!

Objectives:

This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice.

Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to:

• define Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
• identify the parts of a well-built clinical question
• identify EBP searching strategies that could improve PubMed retrieval
• identify key issues that help determine the validity of the results of a study

How to use this Tutorial

We have a PDF file of the tutorial for printing.

This tutorial includes five major units. We recommend that you go through them in sequence. They will give you an overview of the Evidence-Based Practice process as well as give you an opportunity to practice with new cases. The five units are:

• What is EBP? provides definitions and explains the steps in the EBP process.

• Clinical Question introduces you to a patient, illustrates the anatomy of a good clinical question, and defines the types of questions and studies.

• Literature Search constructs a well-built literature search and identifies potentially relevant articles.

• Evaluating Evidence identifies criteria for determining the validity of a study.

• Testing your Knowledge gives you an opportunity to practice the EBP process with several new cases.

• Glossary links to definition of EBP terms from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Toronto

• References points you to additional sites for continued study of the EBP process. and defines some of the terms used in EBP.

• Feedback gives you the opportunity to provide feedback about this tutorial. We ask that you take the time to give us your thoughts and suggestions for improvement. All comments will be greatly appreciated.

Within this tutorial, you have several opportunities to follow links to other Web sites. The external sites open in a new window. Close the second window to return to this tutorial.

We hope this tutorial will be easy to use as well as give you a foundation for the practice of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). Allow approximately 1 hour to complete the tutorial and 1 practice case.

Credits

This tutorial was developed by Connie Schardt (connie.schardt@duke.edu), Duke University Medical Center Library and Jill Mayer (Jill_Mayer@unc.edu), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. Robert Ladd, HSL at UNC-Chapel Hill, designed the graphics and the user interface. Please contact Connie Schardt (919-660-1124) or Jill Mayer (919-966-0960) if you have difficulties using this program.

Thank you to Sheri Keitz, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Miami Miller School of Practice, and Christopher Klipstein, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, who served as content evaluators for the original project.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Revised July 2010