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Rules of Evidence: Information literacy training in the health sciences and its applicability to other disciplines

Abstract. With innovative class exercises, group work, and graded assignments, first-year physical therapy students were taught how to find evidence in the medical literature to use in their clinical decision-making. . Evidence based health care .

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Rules of Evidence: Information literacy training in the health sciences and its applicability to other disciplines

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    1. Rules of Evidence: Information literacy training in the health sciences and its applicability to other disciplines Michelle L. Zafron, MLS, University at Buffalo Stewart Brower, MLIS, University at Buffalo

    2. Abstract With innovative class exercises, group work, and graded assignments, first-year physical therapy students were taught how to find evidence in the medical literature to use in their clinical decision-making.

    3. Evidence based health care “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.” David Sackett, M.D.

    4. PICO Metric P (patient, disease, population) I (intervention) C (comparative intervention) O (outcome) Usually preceded by a short scenario Ideal for creating a research question

    5. The setting Graduate level physical therapy research class of 43 students Students have a summer colloquium that is traditionally a standard library resources BI

    6. The past practice A lecture on evidence based resources A hands-on lab/demo

    7. The new concept Met with faculty to determine content and order of library sessions 3 more sessions were added All but first lecture were split into two one hour labs Created three graded assignments Consultation with librarians on exam questions

    8. Session 1 - Evidence based health care resources Lecture Group exercise Each group was given an abstract Needed to formulate a PICO analysis Needed to answer a series of questions Learned how that fit into the context of a systematic review Provided context

    9. Let’s try this together… Each team will get copies of the article, the abstract, and a series of questions to answer Apply what you know – Is your article a “quality” article? Five minutes to discuss, then each team leader will give a brief report

    10. Systematic Reviews Example from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Each article in this class was analyzed for inclusion/exclusion from the review Here’s what it looks like…

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