Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine

Format: 2-16 Don’t confuse “statistical significance” with “importance”

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Language/s: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Target Audience: 2-9 Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic

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2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

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2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly

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Short Description:

Bill Caley’s 26 slides with notes used as an ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine’.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Bulgarian
• Cartoons
• Chinese
• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better
• 2-10 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported

Details

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the use of evidence in making medical decisions
2. Demonstrate searching for an evidence-based answer to a medical question