NICE Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit
Download NICE Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit from http://www.nice.org.uk/niceMedia/pdf/BestPracticeClinicalAudit.pdf
Now fully integrated with Read by QxMD
All references & citations on the site are now fully integrated with Read by QxMD. What is Read by QxMD? ‘Read by QxMD’ provides a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed. It provides a simple interface that drives discovery and seamless access to the medical literature by reformatting it. […]
Introduction to Evidence Based EMS – Part 2
<<< Make sure you read Part 1 first! Click here! Evaluating Evidence Quality: Individual Studies Just like the different types of evidence in the example above had different levels of quality, different types of scientific evidence also have different levels of quality. Unlike the example above, which was pretty straightforward, scientific studies involve a structured […]
Introduction to Evidence Based EMS – Part 1
“Evidence based” has been a buzzword in EMS for a while, but in a lot of places there doesn’t seem to be much understanding of what “evidence based EMS” actually means. In this article we’ll examine what it means to be “evidence based,” what some types of evidence are, how to understand and evaluate evidence, […]
How-To: Searching UpToDate
What is UpToDate? UpToDate is an evidence-based medical search engine, containing broad coverage of adult primary care, subspecialty internal medicine, ob/gyn, general surgery and pediatrics. It ontains the equivalent of over 77,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text. It is written, reviewed and continuously updated by over 5,100 physicians to ensure that the content remains current. This expert faculty synthesizes […]
How-To: Using Mendeley
What is Mendeley? Mendeley is a free reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Adding References There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting & importing from other programs. Exporting Citations from Databases Most databases such as PubMed, CINAHL etc. allow users […]
How-To: Using Endnote
What is Endnote? EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Adding References There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting, importing and connecting from Endnote Web. The program presents the user with a window containing a drop-down menu […]
2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science
Download from: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/18_suppl_3.toc References 1. Field JM, Hazinski MF, Sayre MR, Chameides L, Schexnayder SM, Hemphill R, Samson RA, Kattwinkel J, Berg RA, Bhanji F, Cave DM, Jauch EC, Kudenchuk PJ, Neumar RW, Peberdy MA, Perlman JM, Sinz E, Travers AH, Berg MD, Billi JE, Eigel B, Hickey RW, Kleinman ME, Link MS, Morrison […]
Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2012
Download from http://www.sccm.org/Documents/SSC-Guidelines.pdf Visit http://www.survivingsepsis.org for more info References 1. Dellinger RP, Levy MM, Rhodes A, Annane D, Gerlach H, Opal SM, Sevransky JE, Sprung CL, Douglas IS, Jaeschke R, Osborn TM, Nunnally ME, Townsend SR, Reinhart K, Kleinpell RM, Angus DC, Deutschman CS, Machado FR, Rubenfeld GD, Webb SA, Beale RJ, Vincent JL, Moreno R; […]

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