Evidence Based Medicine: Learn more about EBM

• How to Read a Paper - by Trish Greenhalgh; published in BMJ

Getting your bearings

How to read a paper: the MEDLINE database

Papers that report drug trials

Papers that report on diagnostic or screening tests

Papers that summarize other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)

• Help with Statistics

Rossi RJ. Applied Biostatistics for the Health Sciences. Second edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2022. 

Israni, RK. Guide to Biostatistics. medpagetoday.com, retrieved 7/12/16

• Review Articles selected from Southern Medical Journal Special Issue on EBM (March 2012)

Morris, MJ, Fewell, AE, Oleszewski, RT. Evidence-based medicine: Specific skills necessary for developing expertise in critical appraisal. Southern Med J, 2012 March; 105(3):115-119.

Mansi, IA. Statistics for the nonstatistician: A primer for reading clinical studies. Southern Med J, 2012 March; 105(3):120-125.

Wissing, DR, Timm D. Statistics for the nonstatistician: Part I.  Southern Med J, 2012 March; 105(3): 126-130.

Hou, W, Carden, D. Statistics for the nonstatistician: Part II. Southern Med J, 2012 March; 105(3): 131-135.

Timm, DF, Banks, DE, McLarty, J. Critical appraisal process: Step-by-step. Southern Medical Journal, 2012 March; 105(3):1440148.