Lecture 3 - Evidence based medicine

Question 1

what is evidence based medicine?

Answer 1

evidence based mediicne refers too the appliaction of the best availabel request to clincial are, which requires the integration of evidence with clincial expertise and aptietn values

Question 2

what are types of resources?

Answer 2

tertiary - evaluate many sources to give a summary of the literature eg martindale

secondary - abstract the secondary respurces eg emdline/ Embase

priamry - original reserach

Question 3

what are advantages and disadvantages of secondary sorces?

Answer 3

advanatages
* usually fairly up to date
* can access a large amoutn of information

disadvanatges
* need training to use effectively
* only a pointer to the priamary literature

Question 4

what are ideal sources of medicines information ?

Answer 4

easy to access, good quality, up to date, easy to read, sufficiently detailed, unbiased, referenced