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Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare

David Rothman — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:01:58 +0000

Rachel Walden points (from both Women’s Health News and Our Bodies Our Blog) to a free online workshop titled “Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action” , offered by the US Cochrane Center’s Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE).

(Embedded below is a video about CUE. If you are reading this post via a feed reader, you may need to visit the site to view the video.)

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Survey: Health Sciences Librarians and EBM

David Rothman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:48:02 +0000

Posted by request from Lin Wu:

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting all medical librarians to take this survey. The purpose of the survey is to explore the roles of health sciences librarians in enhancing and supporting evidence-based medicine (EBM) practice. Results will be reported only for research purposes. The survey will take no more than 10 minutes.

Take this link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ghjbae2_2fJaeUMVJ_2bK7z0HA_3d_3d

Thank you for your time and participation!

If you have questions about the survey, please contact Lin Wu directly:

Lin Wu
Reference Services Librarian
Health Sciences Library
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
877 Madison Avenue; Memphis, TN 38163
Email: lwu5 [AT] utmem [DOT] edu
Toll-free: 877-747-0004; Local: 448-5404

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EBLIP4 Keynote 5-9-07 Booth Plutchak Debate (Video)

David Rothman — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:02:48 +0000

Journal of the Medical Library Association and health sciences library director and Andrew Booth, a leader in EBLIP from the U.K., discuss whether the model of evidence based practice as it has evolved in other fields such as health sciences can be applied to the field of library and information science. Plutchak questions whether the “big questions” in the LIS field can ever be address by the currently available models and Booth counters with arguments in the affirmative. The speakers use the characteristic humor of the classical debating format to make their points.

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Google CSE for “Netting the Evidence”

David Rothman — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:27:39 +0000

The Information Resources Section of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield has put together a Google Custom Search Engine of interest to medical libraryfolk. According to Andrew Booth, Director of Information Resources & Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice, the Netting the Evidence Google Search Engine “…searches over one hundred web sites (107) associated with the METHODOLOGY of evidence based practice.”

This CSE will replace the current Netting the Evidence site, which Booth indicates will shortly be removed.

Try it out and share your thoughts in the comments.

[Via]

Previous posts about Google CSEs

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Reason vs. Superstition in Medicine (Richard Dawkins)

David Rothman — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:50:10 +0000

Although he is best-known as an outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins is a respected biologist.

Really, if you read his work or hear him speak, you get the sense that he isn’t actually hostile towards religious people, he’s hostile towards attacks on reason. So it isn’t really surprising that in his Channel 4 special, The Enemies of Reason, he expresses strong views about superstition and the way it can impact medicine in the form of some “alternative” health therapies in the episode entitled The Irrational Health Service.

You can watch it in the embedded video below:

I particularly enjoy how Dawkins takes apart homeopathy.

Thanks for the heads-up, Graham!

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MeSH for EBM

David Rothman — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:52:38 +0000

The EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC Blog points to a nifty resource from the Hirsh Health Sciences Library at Tufts University: Useful MeSH for Evidence-Based Medicine

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More on NEJM’s “Clinical Decisions” Feature

David Rothman — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:28:51 +0000

The New England Journal of Medicine’s new social feature, Clinical Decisions, has closed its call for feedback and posted the results.

You can also view the results by country with this interactive map.

White coat Notes (a Boston Globe blog) notes that Journal voters stray from the evidence.

Readers were given three choices to vote on. When the 6,085 votes from 113 countries were counted, two of the three choices were almost a tie, with only eight votes separating them. But the winner, with 37.5 percent of the votes, was not the choice consistent with what the two studies concluded…

EBM Page Generator

David Rothman — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:42:21 +0000

Provided by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, the EBM Page Generator looks like a wonderful tool to help a medical library create an EBM page on its intranet, even without extensive Web development skills.

Welcome to the EBM Page Generator!

Let us help you create your own EBM web page with your resources for your website. Once you’ve gone through the process, you’ll end up with the code to export to your own web site.

In five simple steps, your library can select the resources it has available and wishes to include, plug in the appropriate URLs, then copy and paste the code it generates into the appropriate intranet page.

Click here for an example of the kind of page you can make with this tool.

This is a great idea, implemented very nicely.

Hat tip: Ratcatcher’s del.icio.us favorites

Ten TRIP Tips (say it 5 times fast)

David Rothman — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:19:59 +0000

Jon Brassey has ten tips to help you get the most out of his TRIP Database.

There’s an even more comprehensive list of tips here.

Nursing EBP Presentation

David Rothman — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:03:32 +0000

Julie Smith (at Nursing Research: Show me the Evidence!) points to a PowerPoint presentation by Dana N. Rutledge, PhD, RN and Victoria Morrison BSN, RN of St. Joseph Hospital (Orange, California) on Evidence Based Practice and Nursing that I am tucking away for the next time someone asks what EBM/EBP is.