New JAMA Users Guide

JMLA Case Studies in Health Sciences Librarianship brings to our attention a new series of Users’ Guide articles:  How to use an article about genetic association. The first article provides background information; the second discusses judging the validity of a study; and the third discusses applying results to the care of patients.
Attia J, Ioannidis JP, [...]

Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses

I recently learned of an Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses created by Penn State which I think is definitely worth checking out! It can be accessed free here: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/ebpt-07/. This was a collaborative project between the Penn State Libraries and the Department of Nursing at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
The aim [...]

CINAHL Clinical Queries now available

Press release from EBSCO:
In response to customer feedback, and through collaboration with
McMaster University, the EBSCOhost versions of CINAHL, CINAHL
Plus, CINAHL with Full Text, and CINAHL Plus with Full Text now
offer the ability to employ Clinical Queries as part of any search.
Clinical Queries, designed for clinician use, allow users to limit
searches with specific search strategies, to [...]

PubMed EBM searching for handheld devices

Unbound MEDLINE (http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/) provides a clean, simple interface for filtered clinical query searches in PubMed data. Keyword and  “advanced” searching, as well as “browse by topic,” are also available.  While it looks great in a web browser, it was designed with the handheld device in mind.  Unbound MEDLINE is a service of Unbound Medicine (http://www.unboundmedicine.com/), [...]

Clinical Questions

One challenge I’ve faced in developing evidence-based practice classes and tools is coming up with appropriate clinical questions to use for examples.
NLM has a tool to help with this challenge: a databank of clinical questions, at http://clinques.nlm.nih.gov/. 
The ClinicalQuestions Collection is a growing repository of questions that have been collected from healthcare providers in clinical settings [...]

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

“EBLIP is an open access, peer reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services and supported by an international team of editorial advisors. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP [...]

Misquoting the literature

An interesting study in the Journal of Hand Surgery examines whether authors citing a 1986 study have accurately represented the findings reported in this classic article. This points up the importance of reviewing original studies, when practicing evidence-based medicine, rather than relying on later articles to accurately interpret them.
From the abstract:
PURPOSE: Novel clinical studies [...]

EBP Wiki

I’ve been working on a wiki to pull together free and subscription resources for evidence-based practice at my hospital.  The impetus for this effort is our nursing department’s pursuit of magnet status.
Check out the wiki: http://mghpebp.pbwiki.com/ . I’d love to hear your suggestions.

Systematic Evaluation of EBM Point-of-Care tools

A Systematic Evaluation of Evidence Based Medicine Tools for Point-of-Care
Julie M. Trumble, Margaret J. Anderson, Marlene Caldwell, Felicia Chuang, Stephanie Fulton, Anne Howard, Beatriz Varman
This University of Texas study, referenced by both BMJ Clinical Evidence and Stat!Ref (host of ACP PIER), was presented at the South Central Chapter/MLA meeting in October 2006. [...]