Evidence Based Medicine pills
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Case and control studies. Case and control studies, their variations, their association measures, and their absolute and relative impact measures are described. Surely someone overflowing genius has asked you on any occasion, with a smug look, what came first, the…
Cohort studies. The characteristics of cohort studies, their measures of association and impact, and their most characteristic features are described.
Classification of epidemiological studies. Classification of epidemiological studies is made according to their observational or analytical character, directionality and temporality and sampling. As we already know from previous posts, the evidence-based medicine systematics begins with a knowledge gap that moves us…
Other search engines. PubMed is the most used bibliographic search engine, but there are many more such as Embase, the Cochrane’s tools and some metasearch engines such as TRIP. We have already seen in previous posts how to search for information…
Structured clinical question. Any knowledge gap should be formulated as a structured clinical question. Its components are: patients, intervention, comparison and outcome.