Health Sciences Library Guides: Course Support: Internal Medicine: EBM

Appraisal: Primary Studies

How to "In Slide" Referencing

Guide to citing in presentations

Appraisal: Statistics

Medical Statistics by Jennifer Peat; Belinda Barton; Martin Bland (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780727918123
Publication Date: 2005-08-19
Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction. It equips you with the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. Showing you how to: analyse data with the help of data set examples (Click here to download datasets) select the correct statistics and report results for publication or presentation understand and critically appraise results reported in the literature Each statistical test is linked to the research question and the type of study design used. There are also checklists for critically appraising the literature and web links to useful internet sites. Clear and concise explanations, combined with plenty of examples and tabulated explanations are based on the authors? popular medical statistics courses. Critical appraisal guidelines at the end of each chapter help the reader evaluate the statistical data in their particular contexts.

Clinicians' Guide to Statistics for Medical Practice and Research: Part I
Krousel-Wood MA, Chambers RB, Muntner P. Clinicians’ Guide to Statistics for Medical Practice and Research: Part I. Ochsner J. 2006;6(2):68–83.
The odds ratio
Bland JM, Altman DG. The odds ratio. BMJ. 2000 May 27;320(7247):1468.
Parametric v non-parametric methods for data analysis
Altman DG, Bland JM. Parametric v non-parametric methods for data analysis. BMJ. 2009 Apr 2;338:a3167.

Appraisal: Study Bias

CEBM: Catalogue of Bias
A collaborative project mapping all the biases that affect health evidence
Deranged Physiology: Types of bias in medical research
Bias in Research Studies
Sica GT. Bias in Research Studies. Radiology. 2006 Mar 1;238(3):780–9.

Appraisal: Reviews

CEBM: Systematic Reviews Critical Appraisal Sheet
AMSTAR Checklist
A Measurement Tool to Assess the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews.
ROBIS
ROBIS is a new tool for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews (rather than in primary studies). Here you can find the tool itself, information to help you complete a ROBIS assessment, and resources to help you present the results of your ROBIS assessment.
Specialist Unit for Review Evidence (SURE)
CASP: Systematic Reviews
The 3-min appraisal of a meta-analysis (Short article)

EBM Links

CEBM

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database providing citations to biomedical literature in the following fields: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Embase (Excerpta medica) This link opens in a new window
A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.
Cochrane library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers, and a federated search feature that incorporates results from external databases.