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Core Topics in Evidence-Based Medicine

	Learn how to recognize, classify, and prioritize important patient or policy problems.
	Construct clinical questions that facilitate an efficient search for evidence.
	Gather important and convincing evidence from high-quality repositories of the health literature.
	Systematically check best available evidence for indications of validity, importance, and usefulness.
	Interpret the applicability of evidence to specific problems, given patient preferences and values.

	In Practice
	From The Rational Clinical Examination Death A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with severe pleuritic chest pain and... Continue reading See also: *Make the Diagnosis: Death*

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	JAMAevidence PODCAST Mitchell Levine, MD, MSc, discusses harm (observational studies). (7:52) Download this Podcast \| View All New Education Guide FromThe Rational Clinical Examination Stroke, Hemorrhagic New Education Guide From Care at the Close of Life Secondary and Tertiary Palliative Care in Hospitals New updates to the Glossary April 2012: Bordetella pertussis; Inspiratory whoop; Paroxysmal cough; Pertussis; Posttussive emesis; Whooping cough More than 250 palliative care glossary terms have been added to the JAMAevidence Glossary with the release of Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience. Click to view the full JAMAevidence Glossary or only the Care at the Close of Life Glossary. Top searched terms in the glossary Systematic review Randomized controlled trials Meta-analysis Cohort study Prognostic study CALCULATOR Diagnosis 2 by 2 Table Calculator (given cell values)

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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition

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Understanding the Results

You might be most familiar with odds in the context of sporting events, when bookmakers or newspaper commentators quote the odds for and against a horse, a boxer, or a tennis player winning a particular event... Continue reading

The Rational Clinical Examination

The Rational Clinical Examination
Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis

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Cardiac Arrhythmia

About 16% of general medical patients report that they have palpitations... Continue reading

Care at the Close of Life

Care at the Close of Life
Evidence and Experience

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Adolescent Grief

Robert is a bright, engaging, forthright 14-year-old. His brother is 8 years younger.... Continue reading

	Education Guides
	The Rational Clinical Examination Education Guide: Hypovolemia, Adult View Online Slideshow \| Download PowerPoint View all Education Guides View sample slideshow from Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature View sample slideshow from The Rational Clinical Examination View sample slideshow from Care at the Close of Life

	This Week's JAMA
	JAMA Vol 307, No 18, May 09, 2012