Resources

Learning

Ask

• Asking a Good Clinical Question - Study Guide Pages
• EBP in Action: Asking - Slide Handout, Lecture (PDF), Lecture (PPT)

Access

• Accessing Biomed Lit: Basic Search and Text Access (PPT)
• Introduction to PubMed: Basic Search - Study Guide Pages
• Introduction to EBSCOhost: Basic Search - Study Guide Pages
• Access Full Text through Resources - Study Guide

Appraise

• Access and Appraise: Advanced Searching and Evaluation of Search Results
  • Evaluating Information and Evidence for Quality and Relevance (JTASS)
  • Using Advanced Search Features to Evaluate Results for Quality, Authority, and Relevance
• Understanding Study Design
  • Overview of Study Designs - Study Guide Pages
  • Overview of Study Designs - Lecture
  • Case Study RCT
  • Clinical Trial
  • Cohort
  • Case-Control
  • Descriptive Case Series
• Critical Appraisal Overview
  • Overview Guide
  • Journal Club Handouts
  • Lecture

Apply

• Intro to Journal Club
• Journal Club and Critical Appraisal Overview
• Chelation Therapy
• Devil's Claw in Teatment of Osteoarthritis
• Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
• Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain and Depression Screening Opportunities in Clinical Practice
• Implementing an Evidence Based Journal Club in a Complementary and Alternative Medicine University

Assess

• The Cost of Keeping Current

Using

Ask

• PICO Form with Search Results (.doc)
• PICO Example: Activity Database Search

Access

• NUHS LRC E-Subscription and Access
• NUHS LRC Surveillance of BioMed Lit
• Clinicians Guide to New Tools and Features of PubMed

Appraise

• Advanced Searching Features in PubMed and EBSCOhost and Using Database Features to Evaluate Search Results for Quality, Authority, and Relevance
  • Quick Guide for Advanced PubMed
  • Quick Guide for Advanced EBSCOhost
  • Guided Search JTASS Evaulation Lab
  • Search Strategy Evaluation Selection JTASS Form (.doc)
  • Guided Search and Quick JTASS Evaluation (.doc)
• PubMed and EBSCOhost Tutorials for Advanced Searching Practice
  • PubMed: Advanced Searching with MeSH database
  • EBSCOhost Advanced Searching and Features
  • EBSCOhost Advanced Tutorials
• Study Design ID Practice
• Critical Appraisal Practice
  • Journal Club Podcast Template and Guide
  • Search Strategy Evaluation and Critical Appraisal Summary Form (.doc)

Apply

• Journal Club Rubric: What to Include (.doc)
• Journal Club Critical Analysis Podcast Template and Guide
• POEM Template and Example (.doc)

Assess 

• The Cost of Keeping Current

Teaching

Ask

• Constructing the Patient Focused, Searchable Clinical Question

Access

• Biomed Lit: Basic Search Text Access Lecture

Appraise

• Using Advanced Search Features to Evaluate Results for Quality, Authority, and Relevance

Apply

• Journal Club Critical Appraisal Overview

Assess 

• The Cost of Keeping Current

Tools

Ask

• PICO Form

Access

• coming soon

Appraise

• Template for Constructing a Best Evidence Table (.doc)
• BET Checklists (in .doc format):
  • Case/Control
  • Cohort
  • Decision Rule
  • Diagnosis
  • Economic
  • Educational Intervention
  • Guideline
  • Prognosis
  • Qualitative
  • Randomized Control Trial
  • Review or Meta-Analysis
  • Screening
  • Survey

Apply

• coming soon

Assess 

• coming soon

Tutorials

Overview of Evidence Based Practice

• Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
• Institute for Evidence Based Chiropractic
• Evidence for the Effectiveness of EBP for the CAM Practitioner

Forming the Searchable Clinical Question

• Construction a Good Clinical Question Using the PICO Format

Searching Databases, Electronic Journals, and Literature

• PubMed Simple Subject Search (video)
• PubMed Searching with the MeSH Database (video)
• Introduction to EBSCOhost (video)
• EBSCOhost Advanced Search (video)
• Natural Standard Interactive Demo
• NUHS LRC Online Catalog