This ‘toolkit’ is designed as a summary and reminder of the key elements of practising evidence-based medicine (EBM). It has largely been adapted from resources developed at the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine. For more detailed coverage, you should refer to the other EBM texts and web pages cited throughout. The fi rst page of each chapter presents a ‘minimalist’ checklist of the key points. Further sections within each chapter address these points in more detail and give additional background information. Ideally, you should just need to refer to the fi rst page to get the basics, and delve into the further sections as required
