EBM Guidebook

Table of Contents

Title Page

1. Introduction
2. STEP 1: Formulating the Question
   
   1. POEM
   2. PICO
3. STEP 2: Finding the Best Evidence
4. STEP 3: Appraising the Evidence
   
   1. CAMeL General Steps
   2. CAMeL Critical Appraisal Protocols
      
      1. Therapy
      2. Diagnostic Tests
      3. Review Articles
      4. Screening Tests
      5. Prognosis
      6. Causation
5. STEP 4: Preparing an EBM Presentation
   
   1. Protocol for the Presentation
   2. Sample Presentation
6. Overview of Statistics
   
   1. Statistics Without Statistics
   2. Ten Ways to Cheat
7. Glossary of Terms
   Terms marked with an asterisk (*)
   are defined in the Glossary.
References

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V.  STEP 4: Preparing an EBM presentation  (continued)

2. Sample Presentation  (continued)

2. Search Strategy
      Search and resources strategy: Why I used what I used.
      Search Engine: Clinical Queries in PubMed
      Search Strategy:
            MeSH:  Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA
                        AND coronary heart disease
                        AND Hypercholesterolemia
            Clinical Study Category:  Therapy
            Scope:  Narrow, specific search
            Lang:  English
            Dates:  1994 to 2005
      Search Result:  163 articles
      Article Selected: Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with
        coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S),
        Lancet 1994; 344:1383-1389.
3. Research objective: Evaluate the efficacy of a therapy
4. The Article
   
   1. Original Research
   2. Randomized, controlled trial
   3. Journal type:  peer reviewed, general medicine journal, well respected.
   4. Authors:  4S Group
   5. Sites:  94 clinical centers in Scandinavia
   6. Patients:  recruitment, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria
   7. Methods:
      
      1. Randomization or method of comparison
      2. Intervention and adjustment of intervention
      3. Statistical analysis
      4. Other

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