Our patrons hoping to boost their knowledge of evidence-based medicine, critical appraisal, and statistics will be well-served by one of our newest resources, JAMAevidence.
Explore the Users’ Guides to Medical Literature to learn how to read medical literature and methodologies of all kinds, and how to apply the literature to patient care. If you’ve ever wondered about the statistics and numbers that you read about in medical research and what exactly they mean, you’ll find all these answers and more in the Users’ Guide.
The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis contains a multitude of articles to enhance clinical examination and diagnosis. With this book, students will learn how to understand a patient’s medical history and physical examination. The supplementary Education Guides contain slide decks useful for those teachers of evidence-based practice.
If you’ve ever needed to look up a specific statistical method time and time again, you’ll want to bookmark the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods. You can explore stats of an interventional or observational nature in great depth. The section, Practical Guide to Datasets, will be particularly useful if you are curious about using and analyzing large surgical datasets from various sources, including SEER, Medicare, VASQIP, and the NCDB.
Some additional resources you’ll find in JAMAEvidence are 12 handy calculators to aid in things like calculating risk outcomes, number needed to treat, number needed to harm, and likelihood ratios. You’ll also find helpful critical appraisal worksheets and information cycle worksheets.
For additional information about any of these features, or to hear more about this and any other resources, reach out to a librarian at: https://dartmouth-biomed.libanswers.com/form?queue_id=3035.
This post was written by Elaina Vitale, Research and Education Librarian for the Biomedical Libraries.
