This lecture includes these contents: How to practice ebm, finding the evidence, formulate a focused question, develop a search strategy, perform a search on pubmed,. Invite you to consult this lecture. | How to practice EBM: Finding the Evidence Owen Coxall, Tatjana Petrinic & Nia Wyn Roberts Bodleian Health Care Libraries Introduce ourselves Session objectives Formulate a focused question Turn a focused question into a search Search TRIP & PubMed Once we’ve gone over the objectives we should let them know that the session will be a mix or demonstration and hands-on practice. If people are sitting at the machines, say they’re welcome to follow the demonstration themselves on the PC but that we won’t be able to troubleshoot during the presentation, only during the hands-on. Formulate a focused question Patient / Problem / Population Intervention Comparison Outcome They should have covered question formulation in the morning session, so they should all be familiar with the concept. As a result we shouldn’t need to say much about this, apart from the fact that it’s a useful tool for structuring the search strategy. Allow the participants to read the scenario – but you might also want to talk through it a bit. You’re a community midwife running and antenatal group. Following the recent furore on television and newspapers about celebrities smoking during pregnancy one of the women asks for advice on using nicotine patches to help her give up smoking for the rest of the pregnancy. This might be an opportunity to get some interaction – ask the group to identify the PICO components before we go onto the new slide. Focused question P: Pregnant smokers I: nicotine replacement C: N/A O: cessation Is nicotine replacement therapy an effective and safe smoking cessation treatment in pregnant women? Confirm if the participants have correctly identified the PICO elements and suggest this as a possible question to answer. At this point we might want to introduce people to the idea that different authors use different words for the same concept. Another opportunity for interaction, ask for suggestions for different terms for the 3 identified concepts: Smoking . | How to practice EBM: Finding the Evidence Owen Coxall, Tatjana Petrinic & Nia Wyn Roberts Bodleian Health Care Libraries Introduce ourselves Session objectives Formulate a focused question Turn a focused question into a search Search TRIP & PubMed Once we’ve gone over the objectives we should let them know that the session will be a mix or demonstration and hands-on practice. If people are sitting at the machines, say they’re welcome to follow the demonstration themselves on the PC but that we won’t be able to troubleshoot during the presentation, only during the hands-on. Formulate a focused question Patient / Problem / Population Intervention Comparison Outcome They should have covered question formulation in the morning session, so they should all be familiar with the concept. As a result we shouldn’t need to say much about this, apart from the fact that it’s a useful tool for structuring the search strategy. Allow the participants to read the scenario – but you .
