Evidence-based medicine

Welcome to the Wikiversity learning project for Evidence-based medicine.

This project provides learning activities that help Wikiversity participants understand and make use of Evidence-based medicine.

Lessons

Knowledge

• Medical Ethics
• Types of Evidence in Medicine
• Epidemiology and Public Health
• Health Systems

Skills

• Ethical Discussion in Medicine
• Critical Analysis in Medicine

Activities

• Case studies - review and group discussion of published case studies in the area of Evidence-based medicine.
• History of Reiki - review and group discussion of the origins of Reiki and published scientific studies testing the effectiveness of Reiki.
• Types of studies (Randomized Controlled Trials, Case-control studies, etc.)
• Well known medical trials (e.g. ALLHAT, 4S, HOT, etc.)

Useful resources

• Evidence-based medicine article at Wikipedia.
• Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach it (4th ed) by Sharon E. Straus MD (Author), Paul Glasziou MRCGP FRACGP PhD (Author), W. Scott Richardson MD (Author), R. Brian Haynes MD (Author)

This is the definitive text on evidence based medicine (EBM) that formally introduced most of the medical world to the concept and principals in 1997.

• Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition (Jama & Archives Journals) Gordon Guyatt (Author), Drummond Rennie (Author), Maureen Meade (Author), Deborah Cook (Author)

From the JAMA Users' Guides working group, a concise introduction to EBM.

• Epidemiology: An Introduction by Kenneth Rothman
• Epidemiology by Leon Gordis
• Causal inference by Miguel P. Hernan