Introduction

1 Asking answerable clinical questions

2 Acquiring the evidence: How to find current best evidence and have current best evidence find us

3 Appraising the evidence

4 Therapy

5 Diagnosis and screening

6 Prognosis

7 Harm

8 Teaching methods

9 Evaluation

Appendix 1: Glossary

Appendix 2: Confidence intervals (ebook only)

Index

Now in its fifth edition, this classic introduction to the practice and teaching of evidence-based medicine is written for busy clinicians at any stage of their career who want to learn how to practise and teach evidence-based medicine (EBM). It is short and practical, emphasizing direct clinical application of EBM and tactics to practise and teach EBM in real-time.

The online toolkit includes Critical appraisal worksheets, Educational prescription, Pocket Cards, EBM calculators, Educational Prescriptions, Clinical Questions log, Self evaluations.

• Thoroughly updated with examples from latest evidence/studies.
• Revised electronic ancillaries, now available online
• Expanded coverage of audit and measuring quality improvement.
• Teaching moments now indexed for easy reference.
• New contributing authors Reena Pattani and Areti Angeliki Veroniki