EBP Resources

Cool Stuff from the workshop

• • Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice  (Interactive tutorial from Duke University)

  • EBP musical videos from James McCormack on YouTube:

  • Number Needed to Retrieve  - a practicality useful measure of information retrieval

  • PubMed for Nurses - Tutorial from National Library of Medicine

  • EBP videos from Terry Shaneyfelt, MD on YouTube

Introduction

• • Evidence-based Answers to Clinical Questions for Busy Clinicians https://medicine.biu.ac.il/sites/medicine/files/shared/2145_ebp_workbook.pdf (PDF) - from the Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE), Melbourne, Australia

  • Evidence Based Practice - Subject Guide (Duke University)

Asking the Clinical Question

• • Richardson WS. Wilson MC. Nishikawa J. Hayward RS. The well-built clinical question: a key to evidence-based decisions. ACP Journal Club. Nov-Dec 1995;123(3):A12-3 

  • Booth A. Structuring the pre-search reference interview: a useful technique for handling clinical questions.   Bull Med Libr Assoc. July 2000; 88(3):239-46. 

  • Cleyle S. Booth A. Clear and present questions: formulating questions for evidence based practice. Library Hi Tech. 2006;24(3):355–68.

  • Cooke A. Smith D.  Booth A. Beyond PICO: the SPIDER tool for qualitative evidence synthesis. Qual. Health Res. 2012;22(10):1435–43. PubMed PMID: 22829486.

Finding the Evidence

• • Answering Clinical Questions in Real Time for Nursing - from the Library & Resource Center, St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria

  • Qualitative Research filters – from University of Washington

  • Windish D. Searching for the right evidence: how to answer your clinical questions using the 6S hierarchy. Evid Based Med. 2013 Jun;18(3):93-7. PubMed PMID: 23048189.

  • Hirt J et al. Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS statement. 2024, BMJ. 2024;385:e078384. PubMed PMID: 38724089.

Appraising the Evidence

• • How to Read a Paper - A series of full text articles by Trisha Greenhalgh published in BMJ

  • Jackson R, Ameratunga S, Broad J, et al. The GATE frame: critical appraisal with pictures (RAMMbo). Evid Based Med. 2006;11(2):35-8. PubMed PMID: 17213070.

  • FRISBE worksheet for critical appraisal of therapy studies.  Duke University

  • CASP - Critical AppraisalSkills Programme. Oxford UK

  • Risk Calculator - from Alan Schwartz at the University of Illinois, Chicago

  • AMSTAR - Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) is a 37-item assessment tool used to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

  • COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN)

  • CONSORT guidelines - The CONSORT Statement, which is an evidence-based, minimum set of recommendations for reporting RCTs

  • Know your chances: Understanding health statistics (Free Full Text) - Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Welch HG. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press; 2008. Book written for health consumers in easy to understand language about understanding health statistics.

  • Basic & Clinical Biostatistics. Beth Dawson. 3rd edition. New York: Lange Medical Books, 2001.

  • Greenhalgh T. How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine, 4th Edition.  BMJ Books, 2010.

  • Guyatt G. Rennie D. Satya-Murti S. Users Guide to the Medical literature: A Manual for Evidence Based Clinical Practice. 3rd edition. McGraw-Hill, 2015.

  • Schwartz MD. Improving journal club presentations, or, I can present that paper in under 10 minutes. Evid Based Med. 2007 Jun;12(3):66-8. PMID: 17537877

Systematic Reviews

• • Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

  • JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis

  • Rethlefsen ML. Engaging medical librarians to improve the quality of review articles. JAMA. 2014 Sep 10;312(10):999-1000. PubMed PMID: 25203078.

  • Dudden RF. The systematic review team: contributions of the health sciences librarian. Med Ref Serv Q. 2011;30(3):301-15. PubMed PMID:21800987.

  • Choi AR. Twelve tips for medical students to conduct a systematic review. Med Teach. 2018 Jan 23:1-5. PubMed PMID: 29361869. [Preprint version]

  • Munn Z, Stern C, Aromataris E, Lockwood C, Jordan Z. What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018;18(1):5. PubMed PMID: 29316881.

Reviewed: 3 October 2025