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Evidence Based Resources

  • JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports  is a refereed, online journal that publishes systematic review protocols and systematic reviews of healthcare research following the JBI methodology and undertaken by the Joanna Briggs Institute and its international collaborating centers and groups.

  • Centre for Evidence-Based Research    CEBM aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care through conferences, workshops and EBM tools so that all health care professionals can maintain the highest standards of medicine.

Selected Professional Societies and Associations Guidelines

Clinical Trial Resources

  • ClinicalTrials.gov    ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

evidence pyramid

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Systematic reviews ask a specific clinical question, perform a comprehensive literature search, eliminate the poorly done studies and attempt to make practice recommendations based on the well-done studies. A meta-analysis is a systematic review that combines all the results of all the studies into a single statistical analysis of results.

Critically-appraised individual articles evaluate and synopsize individual research studies, while critically-appraised topics evaluate and synthesize multiple research studies.

Case control studies looks at two groups retrospectively--one with the condition and one without-- to determine causes and natural history. Cohort studies are longitudinal studies that follow two groups (a control group and a group the condition of intervention of interest) over time. Randomized controlled double blind studies are the gold standard for medical evidence.

 

Search using PICO: this is a template to formulate a clinical question PICO stands for Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome

  • Patient, Population or Problem
    • What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
    • What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
  • Intervention or exposure
    • What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
  • Comparison
    • What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
  • Outcome
    • What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?

Intro to EBP from Duke's Introduction to Evidence Based Practice includes PICO structure

Finding the Evidence 1 – Using PICO to formulate a search question  Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine