Patient
Concerns
EBM
Best research Clinical
evidence Expertise
Some variants of Evidence-Based Practice
Worst
Ideal, still theoretical, links EMR to best
research evidence, always updated, drills down
OVID includes and links EBMR (Cochrane, ACP Journal Club, the
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Evidence (DARE), and Medline
Specialized
ACP Journal Club: General
www.acpjc.org Cochrane Central
Evidence Based Register of Controlled
Medicine: Trials (Therapy)
www.ebm.bmjjournals.com MEDLINE:
Evidence Based Nursing: http://www.ncbi.nlm.ni
www.ebn.bmjjournals.com h.gov/PubMed/
Evidence Based Mental • Using the Clinical
Health: Queries Search
www.ebmh.bmjjournals.co ASK MEDLINE
m http://askmedline.nlm.
nih.gov/ask/ask.php
3-part Clinical
Target Disorder: Question
Outcome:
CT Scan
Treatments
Treatment Effect
Randomised Trial
Symptoms
Cause(s) Signs, Tests
Cross Sectional Study
Past current future
It’s peer-reviewed, therefore it must be OK?
How it happens in practice?
Rec
Weight of
Scientific Meta-analysis of RCT Level 1
Scrutiny A
Large RCT
Small RCT Level 2
B
Non-Randomized trials
Observational studies Level 3