GSU Library Research Guides: Evidence-based Medicine: EBM Tutorials & Readings

BMJ's "How to Read a Paper" Series

"How to Read a Paper" is used by health care professionals and medical students worldwide to learn how to critically read research articles.

How to read a paper. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers.
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Aug 2;315(7103):305-8.
How to read a paper. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about).
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Jul 26;315(7102):243-6.
How to read a paper. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests.
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Aug 30;315(7107):540-3.
How to read a paper. Papers that report drug trials.
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Aug 23;315(7106):480-3.
How to read a paper. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Sep 13;315(7109):672-5.
How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests.
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Aug 9;315(7104):364-6.
How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.
Greenhalgh T. BMJ. 1997 Aug 16;315(7105):422-5.

JAOA's EBM Series

Evidence-based medicine, part 1. An introduction to creating an answerable question and searching the evidence.
Virgilio RF, Chiapa AL, Palmarozzi EA. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):295-7.
Evidence-based medicine, part 2. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on therapy.
Cardarelli R, Virgilio RF, Taylor L. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):299-303.
Evidence-based medicine, part 3. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on diagnosis.
Schranz DA, Dunn MA. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):304-9.
Evidence-based medicine, part 4. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on harm.
Cardarelli R, Seater MM. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):310-4.
Evidence-Based Medicine, Part 5. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on prognosis
Cardarelli R, Oberdorfer JR. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):315-9.

EBM Tutorials

Cochrane Library Reference Guide (.pdf)
Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
From the University of Alberta.
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"This is a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. The appraisal tools are adapted from the Users' Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA"
Evidence-Based Practice in Applied Health
From the Information Services Department of the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Includes "The Well-Built Clinical Question". From Duke University Medical Center Library.
Practising EBM (University of Toronto)
From the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM).
PubMed Clinical Queries Tutorial
Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (University of Oxford)
Tools for each step of the EBM process (asking the question, finding the evidence, critical appraisal, etc.)

Bandolier "What is...? Series

What is....?
Scroll to the bottom for the series, which includes topics such as:
*Confidence intervals
*Numbers-needed-to-treat
*Cox Model

Cochrane Library

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Use the Cochrane Library to find full-text of Cochrane systematic reviews. View the paper to see their analysis of clinical studies and how they compare them to each other.

Research Logs

Evidence Analysis Log
You can use this log to help analyze individual citations.
Literature Search Tracking Log
You can use this log to keep track of your search strategies.

Feel free to modify these Excel files to suit your needs.