• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Forward
  • Module Objectives
• Why Is EBM Important?
• Levels of Evidence
  • What Is Evidence?
  • Hierarchy of Evidence
  • Systematic Review
  • Systematic Review of Cohort Studies
  • Summary
• The EBM Process
  • Formulating a Clinical Question
    • Purpose of Clinical Question
    • Types of Clincal Questions
    • The Well-Built Questions: PICO
  • Searching for the Evidence
    • Cochrane
    • PubMed
    • Helpful Tips
  • Critically Appraise, Apply Evidence
• Resources
• Credits
• Return to Patient Safety & Quality Improvement

Resources and "Cheat Sheet"

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
  
• Guyatt, Gordon and Rennie, Drummond (eds.). Users' guides to the medical literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group; Chicago, IL:AMA Press, c2002
  
• Print out this handly sheet for future reference.

The EBM Process “Cheat Sheet”

1. Ask a “well-built” (focused) clinical question
   
2. Search for the best evidence to answer the question:
   
   • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
     
   • Cochrane Other Reviews
     
   • PubMed Clinical Queries Systematic Reviews
     
   • PubMed Clinical Queries “Research methodology filters”
     
3. Critically appraise the evidence
   
4. Apply the evidence to the patient
   
5. Ask for help: 505-272-2311 (UNM HSLIC)

Go to Learning Central and take the quiz
for Module 5: Evidence-Based Medical Practice