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Evidence based medicine in the BMJ
The BMJ has been championing evidence based medicine, since the editorial from David Sackett
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't set out the tennants of the movement - as he explained, "It's about integrating individual clinical expertise and the best external evidence". EBM's road from fringe movement to it's central place in healthcare was not easy, as some of the key members explain in this Oral History project from JAMA and The BMJ,
Browse the tools, resources and articles available from across BMJ to learn, debate or apply EBM:
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Problems of stopping trials early
Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagno…
Diagnostic strategies used in primary care
Diagnosis using “test of treatment”
Test of time
Clinical prediction rules
Using probabilistic reasoning
GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strengt…
What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?
Going from evidence to recommendations
Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendat…
Use of GRADE grid to reach decisions on clinical practice guidelines w…
The need to consider the wider agenda in systematic reviews and meta-a…
Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (…
THEME ISSUE
An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research
When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise
What is missing from descriptions of treatment in trials and reviews?
Graphical method for depicting randomised trials of complex interventi…
Teaching evidence based medicine
How to read a paper series
ENDGAMES
Units of sampling, observation, and analysis
ENDGAMES
Randomised controlled trials: understanding confounding
ENDGAMES
Understanding the ecological fallacy
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How to read a funnel plot in a meta-analysis
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Understanding the Hawthorne effect
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Interpreting hazard ratios
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What is publication bias in a meta-analysis?
ENDGAMES
Bias in randomised controlled trials: comparison of crossover group an…
ENDGAMES
Multistage sampling
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How to read a forest plot in a meta-analysis
ENDGAMES
Bias in experimental study designs: randomised controlled trials with …
ENDGAMES
Placebos and sham treatments
ENDGAMES
A comparison of sampling error and standard error
ENDGAMES
What is significance?
ENDGAMES
Randomised controlled trials: understanding power
ENDGAMES
Uncertainty in sample estimates: standard error
ENDGAMES
What are the risks?
LEARNING
Evidence based medicine: a users' guide 1 hour
LEARNING
Evidence based medicine: how to find the answers to your clinical ques…
LEARNING
Understanding statistics 1 hour
LEARNING
Understanding statistics 2: is there a significant difference? 1 hour
CE BLOGS
(Caroline to categorise)
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Muir Gray
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Neal Maskrey
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Paul Glasziou
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Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers (Research Waste)
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Too Much Medicine
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EBM Journal blogs
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(NOTE: includes links to their Google hangouts)
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EBN Journal blogs
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BMJ CE Podcasts
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Methodological gloss won't fix a rubbish evidence base
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Patient spotlight - patient centred care
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How to diagnose overdiagnosis
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Cancer screening - does it save lives?
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Preventing overdiagnosis - the problems with screening
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Helicobacter pylori - new evidence, and when to test and treat
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Tamiflu US Press Conference
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Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke - time for a rethink?
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Why patients and docs make poor decisions. Challenge of evidence in pr…
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“Mythbuster” on NSAIDs in sports medicine, challenging nutrition dogma…
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Frontline Neurogastroenterology: Evidence based therapeutics in IBS
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Evidence based neurointervention
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Looking back at building the evidence base for safe and active bicycli…
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Why we were wrong about dietary fat guidelines
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VIDEOS
Evidence-based medicine - an oral history
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
EBM Glossary
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Health economics terms glossary
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Commonly used EBM and statistical abbreviations
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Stats calculator and formulae of risk terms
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
How to calculate risk
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Critical appraisal checklists
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Links to other EBM resources
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Study design search filters
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Adjusting for baseline risk: number needed to treat (nomogram)
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Estimating CVD risk and treatment benefit
Debate
Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?
Evidence based medicine—an oral history
Evidence based medicine: increasing, not dictating, choice
The knowledge system underpinning healthcare is not fit for purpose an…
Too much medicine; too little care
Overdiagnosis: when good intentions meet vested interests—an essay by …
The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition
Assessment of changes to screening programmes: why randomisation is im…
Is animal research sufficiently evidence based to be a cornerstone of …
Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: p…
THEME ISSUE
Evidence based medicine has come a long way (2004)
What has evidence based medicine done for us?
Which clinical studies provide the best evidence? (2000)
General practitioners' perceptions of the route to evidence based medi…
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't (1996)
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
An introduction to the concepts of EBM: a bibliography of key articles…
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SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight on patient centred care
Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace qui…
Shared decision making: really putting patients at the centre of healt…
Putting evidence into practice (2011)
Interpreting research findings to guide treatment in practice
Effectiveness of strategies for informing, educating, and involving pa…
Integrating evidence based medicine into routine clinical practice: se…
How does evidence affect clinical decision-making?
LEARNING
NICE: evidence into practice - how to make evidence based decisions 1 …
LEARNING
NICE: evidence into practice - how to put guidance into practice 1 hou…
LEARNING
NICE: evidence into practice - how to bring about change 1 hour
LEARNING
NICE: evidence into practice - how to use audit to improve patient car…
CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Explaining EBM to your patients
Evidence based journals from BMJ
The BMJ has been championing evidence based medicine, since the editorial from David Sackett
BMJ has three journals dedicated to EBM, and each contains specific resources to help you with your evidence based practice, whatever your speciality
