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Evaluating evidence-based practice performance
1 Editor-in-Chief, DynaMed
Medical Director of Clinical Reference Products, EBSCO Publishing
Columbia, Missouri, USA
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Key Words: evidence-based medicine • education
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Dr Green provided a useful 1 page form that can be used by trainees to document their efforts in applying evidence-based principles to answering specific clinical questions.1
We would like to share 2 additional forms designed for use by medical students and residents. These forms ask for the following rating of the quality of the evidence:
- Information based on systematic comprehensive search for the best available evidence
- Information based on scientific studies but unclear if the best studies are cited
- Information based on case reports or case series
- Information based on consensus of representative experts
- Information based on opinions of 1 or a few authors
- Unclear what information is based on
This assessment of the quality of the evidence to support a specific answer was selected for 2 reasons: (1) the form is designed to be used in multiple institutions, and it is unknown if and when an individual curriculum
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