Library Guides: Evidence-Based Medicine: A Guide: EBM Introduction

Evidence-based practice defined

This graphic shows how the quality of evidence increases as the study design and information filters change.

Evidence Based Medicine and Baking
From Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division

An Introduction to Evidence Based Practice - Duke University Medical Sciences Library
A web-based tutorial intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice.
Evidence based medicine - what it is and what it isn't.
David Sackett et.al BMJ 1996;312:71-72.
What is EBM? - CEBM
The 5 steps of evidence based practice. From the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford, UK.
Interpreting and understanding meta-analysis graphs: A practical guide
Full text PDF - Ried K. Interpreting and understanding meta-analysis graphs: a practical guide. Aust Fam Physician. 2006 Aug;35(8):635-8. PubMed PMID: 16894442.
"How to read a paper" BMJ series
Free series describing how to interpret results from a variety of study designs. Originally published in the British Medical Journal by Trisha Greenhalgh, 1997.

A systematic review is an overview of primary studies that used explicit and reproducible methods
A meta-analysis is a mathematical synthesis of the results of two or more primary studies that addressed the same hypothesis in the same way
Although meta-analysis can increase the precision of a result, it is important to ensure that the methods used for the review were valid and reliable

Greenhalgh. BMJ 1997;315:672