Online Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM)

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the integration of best scientific evidence, clinical experience, and a consideration of preferences, rights, and values into clinical decision-making. EBM can be thought of as the translation of research evidence into clinical practice.

Section I

Preappraised Resources

Although rigorous systematic reviews and meta-analyses may sit at the top of the hierarchy of evidence, they are often too complicated and lengthy to be useful to clinicians at the point-of-care. This section of the EBEM page includes summaries of systematic reviews and short-cut reviews that have been screened for direct relevance to Emergency Medicine practice. The synopses of systematic reviews selected from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and from the JAMA Rationale Clinical Examination Series include short clinical commentaries done by experienced practitioners familiar with those practice areas.

  • Improving the dissemination of the rational clinical examination series in emergency medicine
    July 2004 (Volume 44 | Number 1 | p 74-76)

    David H. Newman, MD, Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, Peter C. Wyer, MD

  • Improving the dissemination of systematic reviews in emergency medicine
    March 2002 (Volume 39 | Number 2 | p 293-295)

    Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, Peter C. Wyer, MD, William H. Cordell, MD

  • How relevant are the systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library to emergency medical practice?
    February 2002 (Volume 39 | Number 2 | p 153-158)

    Stephen D. Emond, MD, Peter C. Wyer, MD, Michael D. Brown, MD, William H. Cordell, MD, Carol H. Spooner, BScN, MSc, Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc

Section II

Principles and Skill Set of EBM
  • What Is EBM?
  • Searching Skills and Evidence-Based Resources
  • General EBM Concepts and Skills
  • Therapy Concepts and Skills
  • Diagnostic Testing Concepts and Skills
  • EBM Methodology
  • EBM Education

Section III

Links
  • Links to other relevant Evidence-Based Medicine Web sites.

Section IV

Feedback
  • Access the EBEM Readers' Forum.
  • Send your feedback electronically to the EBEM Readers' Forum.