Guide to Evidence Based Practice: About EBP
About This Page
Michener Institute places a strong emphasis on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP).
On this page, you will learn about the core concepts of EBP and be directed to additional resources for deepening your knowledge and improving your evidence-based skills.
New to Searching?
By searching one of these databases, you will be searching articles from thousands of journals. More information is available in Databases.
- PubMedPubMed comprises over 23 million journal citations. This index is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and is accessible to anyone on the web.
- EBSCOhostApproximately 4000 full text titles are available from this aggregator which provides electronic journals licensed from various publishers.
- ScienceDirectAlmost 1400 full-text online journals from Elsevier Science. Note that tables of contents and abstracts are available for many more Elsevier journals that we do not subscribe to.
- Cochrane LibraryCochrane Systematic Reviews are not technically journal articles, but they are a valuable academic source. The Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting in support of evidence-based medicine.
EBP Toolbox
- EBM ToolsCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University
Guides
- AGREE II: Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and EvaluationDownloadable instrument for evaluating clinical practice guidelines.
- Inclusion CriteriaMcMaster guide to inclusion criteria for systematic reviews.
- Critical Appraisal ToolsCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Critical Appraisal SheetCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- CATWalk: A Guide to Critically Appraised TopicsUniversity of Alberta
- CATmaker and EBM CalculatorsSoftware for creating critically-appraised topics.
From Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University - Grey MattersGuide to searching the grey literature from CADTH
Books/Articles
- Users' Guide to the Medical Literature ManualUnabridged Version of Users Guide
- Users' Guide to Medical Literature EssentialsAbridged Version of Users Guide
- JAMA Rational Clinical Examination SeriesJournal of the American Medical Association
- How to Read a PaperBMJ series on evaluating research articles
Quick Reference
- Making Sense of Diagnostic Test Likelihood RatiosPerera R. & Heneghan C.
- STARD StatementStandards for the Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) at Michener Institute
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a broad concept referring to the incorporation of valid and relevant external evidence during the decision making process.
In the health sciences, such evidence is most commonly found in high-quality research studies that can be applied to the specific patient or population being considered.
As Michener Institute students, the concept of EBP runs through all aspects of your academic curriculum: from theory to research to clinical decision-making and beyond.
The resources available at the Learning Resource Centre can help you find the best available evidence to support these processes, but this is only one piece of the EIDM puzzle (See Fig. 1).
EBP Core Concepts
- "Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine"Centre for Health Evidence
- "Evidence-Based Medicine: What it is and what it isn't"D. L. Sackett, W. M. Rosenberg, J. A. Gray, R. B. Haynes, and W. S. Richardson
- Introduction to Evidence-Based MedicineDuke University Medical Center Library Tutorial
- Accessing preappraised evidence: fine-tuning the 5S model into a 6S modelAlba DiCenso, Liz Bayley, and R B Haynes. "ACP Journal Club. Editorial." Annals of Internal Medicine 151.6 (2009): JC3-2, JC3.
EBP: Just for Fun!
Some Studies that I Like to Quote by James McCormack
Viva La Evidence! By James McCormack
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