Books about Critical Appraisal
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What is a CAT?
CATs were developed in the early 1990s as a means of teaching the principles of evidence-based medicine. Different acronyms have emerged in various specialties (e.g., POEMS in family medicine), but they all do essentially the same thing.
When preparing a CAT, you will:
- Formulate a clinical question
- Search for clinical research that might address the question
- Evaluate that research for
- Validity
- Importance
- Applicability to care of your patient
- Write and file a summary page
Learning about EBM
- JAMA EvidenceIncludes critical appraisal worksheets and the full text of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)Provides Critical Appraisal worksheets as well as the CATmaker, a computer-assisted critical appraisal tool which helps you create Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) for key articles.
- Evidence Based Mini-ManualA brief guide about developing and answering a focused clinical question for therapy, etiology, diagnosis and prognosis.
- BandolierEvidence-based Medicine website with an excellent glossary and guides to understanding and appraising the medical literature
- McMaster Evidence Based Practice ResourcesA guide to evidence based practice from McMaster University.
- Introduction to Evidence Based PracticeA tutorial from Duke University.
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