Core Resources:
Users' guides to the medical literature :a manual for evidence-based clinical practice 2nd ed. 2008
(Dal only)
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature Online Interactive manual 1st ed 2002
(Dal only)
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature (Original JAMA series)
CMAJ Evidence-based medicine series
More Resources:
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital -
University Health Network (Serves as support for the book:
Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM
by S.E. Strauss (formerly D. L. Sackett) ... et al. 3rd ed. Churchill Livingstone, 2005.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Oxford, England
Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Literature
A useful overview compiled by Jo Dorsch from Library of the Health
Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Evidence-Based Medicine Education Center of Excellence
This site provides a collection of resources that support
teaching and learning in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for
faculty, librarians, students, and other health care professionals.
Site created by academic and AHEC health sciences librarians
who teach EBM in their medical schools. Hosted and designed by
Health Sciences Library, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Introduction to Evidence-based medicine Duke University Medical Center Library
Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to:
define Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
identify the parts of a well-built clinical question
identify EBM searching strategies that could improve MEDLINE retrieval
identify key issues that help determine the validity of the results of a study
Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation
This matrix of levels of evidence from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine were
produced by Produced by Bob Phillips, Chris Ball, Dave Sackett, Doug Badenoch, Sharon Straus,
Brian Haynes, Martin Dawes.
CMAJ Evidence-based medicine series
Users' guides to the medical literature :a manual for evidence-based clinical practice 2nd ed. 2008
(Dal only)
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature Online
Interactive manual 1st ed. 2002
(Dal only)
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature (Original JAMA series)
JAMA began publishing, in 1993, a series of articles written by members of the
Evidence Based Medicine Working Group, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, University of
Toronto. Electronic versions based on the articles in this series may be found at the
Canadian Centres for Health Evidence.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature [editorial]. JAMA 1993 Nov
3;270(17):2096-7.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
I. How to get started. JAMA 1993
Nov 3;270(17):2093-5.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. II. How to use an article about
therapy or prevention. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1993 Dec
1;270(21):2598-601.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. B. What were the results and will they help me in
caring for my patients?JAMA 1994 Jan5;271(1):59-63.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1994
Feb 2;271(5):389-91.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What are the results and will they help me caring
for my patients? JAMA 1994 Mar 2;271(9):703-7.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
IV. How to use an article about harm. JAMA 1994 May 25;271(20):1615-6.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
V. How to use an article about prognosis. JAMA 1994 Jul 20;272(3):234-7.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
VI. How to use an overview.
JAMA 1994 Nov 2;272(17):1367-71.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
VII. How to use a clinical
decision analysis. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1995 Apr
26;273(16):1292-5.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
VII. How to use a clinical
decision analysis. B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for
my patients? JAMA 1995 May 24-31;273(20):1610-3.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
VIII. How to Use Clinical Practice
Guidelines. A. Are the recommendations valid? JAMA 1995 Aug 16;274(7):570-4.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
VIII. What are the recommendations
and will they help you in caring for your patients? JAMA 1995
Nov22-29;274(20):1630-2.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. IX. A method for grading health
care recommendations. JAMA 1995 Dec 13;274(22):1800-4.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. X. How to use an article reporting
variations in the outcomes of health services. JAMA 1996 Feb 21 275(7):554-8.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
XI. How to use an article about a
clinical utilization review. JAMA 1996 May 8;275(18):1435-9.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. XII. How to use articles about
health-related quality of life. JAMA 1997 Apr 16;277(15):1232-7.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. XIV. How to decide on the
applicability of clinical trial results to your patient. JAMA 1998 279:545-49.
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. XVI. How to use a treatment
recommendation. JAMA 1999 May 19;281(19):1836-.
EBM Toolbox
Developed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, Eng., it contains
an assortment of materials useful for practitioners of EBM from information on
how to ask focused clinical questions, to what search filters are and how to
apply them, to how to interpret NNT's, liklihood ratios, etc.
Evidence-Based Medicine
Toolkit Developed by the University of Alberta, this site provides a
collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence
for better health care decision-making. These are useful synopses based
on the work of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group.
- How to Read a Paper This series of articles by Trish Greenhalgh was
published in the BMJ and is also available as a book from BMJ Publications
(Available in the Kellogg Library at the call number: W 20.5 G813h 1997)
Electronic version:
Evaluating the
Literature: Quality Filtering and Evidence-Based Medicine and Health This
article, from the National Library of Medicine's course on Health Services
Research (HSR), examines the role of the health sciences librarian in quality
filtering.
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