Critical Appraisal Tools
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford University)Contains useful tools and downloads for the critical appraisal of different types of medical evidence. Detailed appraisal sheets include helpful examples.
- JAMA Evidence Critical Appraisal WorksheetsRequires free registration
Learning About Evidence Based Medicine
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (Duke University)This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice. Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to:
-define Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
-identify the parts of a well-built clinical question
-identify searching strategies that could improve searching
-identify key critical appraisal issues that help determine the validity of a study - Evidence-Based Mini-Manual Based in part on the Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit, http://www.ebm.med.ualberta.ca/ ”… 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"
- Resources for Evidence-Based Practice: About EBP (McMaster University) Learn about the core concepts of EBP and be directed to additional resources for deepening your knowledge and impoving your evidence-based skills.
E-Textbooks
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature by
Designed to help you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice. This detailed, yet highly readable reference demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine, giving you a hands-on, practical resource.
ISBN: 9780071794152Publication Date: 2015-01-05
