Evidence-Based Practice: Research Guide

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

A public resource for summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Presented by the University of Alberta

From the American Physical Therapy Association

EBM resources include worksheets, self-evaluations, and more.

Slideshow presentation with tutorial questions.
From the University of Minnesota Libraries.

From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

Tutorials from the Physiotherapy Evidence Database

From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

D. L. Sackett, W. M. Rosenberg, J. A. Gray, R. B. Haynes, and W. S. Richardson
PDF available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine

K A McKibbon
PDF available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine

Diagnostic Test: Calculates Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPV, LR+, and LR.
Prospective Study: Calculates Relative Risk (RR), Absolute Relative Risk (ARR), and Number Needed to Treat (NNT).
Case-control Study: Calculates Chi-squared and OR.
Randomized Controlled Trial: Calculates Relative Risk, Absolute Relative Resk, Number Needed to Treat, Chi-squared, and OR.

Determines diagnostic test characteristics: Prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, etc.
Determines post-test probabilities given pre-test probabilities & test characteristics.