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Overview of the precepts of EBM and reflections on some current issues affecting its progress. [2012]

This guide, tabbed by topic, is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature; includes a resource collection and glossary. From the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Third of a four-part comprehensive mini-course on Evidence-Based Medicine; covers the principles, methodology and appraisal of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including use of odds ratios and relative risks.

A five minute tutorial, with inbuilt self-assessment, from the Boston University Medical Library.

Compares and evaluates the optimum grading system (SIGN, GRADE, GATE and NSF-LTC) for the type of guideline being developed or question being addressed by a specialist society. [2010]

The advantages of the GRADE system for rating the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.