Evidence-Based Practice: Home

This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice. Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to:

• define Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
• identify the parts of a well-built clinical question
• identify searching strategies that could improve PubMed searching
• identify key critical appraisal issues that help determine the validity of a study

This tutorial includes five units. We recommend completion in sequence.

1. Overview: Explains the steps in the EBP process
2. Ask: Introduces you to a patient, illustrates the anatomy of a good clinical question, and defines the types of questions and studies
3. Acquire: How to construct a literature search based on the PICO method to identify potentially relevant articles.
4. Appraise: Identifies criteria for determining the validity of a study selected for our case
5. Practice: Opportunities to practice the EBP process with several new cases

Allow approximately 1 hour to complete the tutorial and 1 practice case.

Within this tutorial, you have several opportunities to follow links to other Web sites. The external sites open in a new window. Close the second window to return to this tutorial.

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