Introduction to evidence-based medicine - INDS 306

Course Materials

• Lecture notes (pdf)
• Resource summary (pdf)
• Best evidence (pdf)
• Levels of evidence (pdf)
• Case scenarios (pdf)

Electronic textbook

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice - 2008 edition

Databases

Filtered Information Sources

• ACP Pier
• Clinical Evidence - from BMJ
• Essential Evidence Plus
• UpToDate
• Dynamed

• Cochrane Library
• PubMed Clinical Queries

Unfiltered Information Sources

• MEDLINE (1996-) - premier biomedical database produced by the National Library of Medicine.
  MEDLINE (1950-)
• PubMed with Link Out
• EMBASE

Other Useful Links

• Glossary of EBM terms - from the University of Toronto Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
• Evidence-Based Health Care Subject Guide - McGill Life Sciences Library
• Online reference - dictionaries and encyclopedias

EBM Toolbox

• Confidence Interval Calculator
• Converting odds ratios to Number needed to treat (NNT)
• Quantify agreement with kappa
• Risk Reduction Calculator
• Interactive Nomogram
• Diagnostic Test Calculator