Evidence-Based Practice

This self-paced tutorial will take you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well-built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. This program was developed by the Medical Center Library at Duke University and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. This site also serves as support for the book entitled, Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM by Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou and R. Brian Haynes (3rd edition).

This guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature.

This Web-based tutorial, from the Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, introduces EBM principles and strategies used in searching and evaluating the literature.

Brief overview of the evidence cycle.

Online tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses. Includes the Text of the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature, The Rational Clinical Examination, podcasts and other tools that can be customized for teaching.

Sharon E. Straus
R723.7.E954 2011

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ellen Fineout-Overholt
RT42 M44 2005

Carol Boswell, Sharon Cannon, ed. 3rd ed. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2014
RT81.5.I5844 2014

Charles Abraham; Marieke Kools
R119.W75 2012

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Definitions used by the Cochrane Collaboration.