Creating EBM articles
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Colleagues,
As a resident in the Family Medicine program at UMDNJ-RWJMS, as PGYIIs we had a dedicated 2 week evidence medicine based course that taught us to evaluate literature and determine if it is Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters (POEMS). I would like to suggest some resources below:
1. http://www.sicsebm.org.uk/catmaker.cattips.htm - a great introduction to evaluating articles and making an evidenced based opinion. The evaluation is predicated on using a freeware tool called the CATmaker. CAT stands for Critically Appraised Topic. After discussing with Biren, this may be a potential format that you the collaborator can use to evalate articles relevant to your interest/field of study. The CATmaker allows to output files to HTML, which would make it easy for us to integrate with the future SAHRI website.
2. InfoPOEMs Inc.- can either go there via www.infopoems.com or for those of you in UMDNJ can go through the database link on the main page of the UMDNJ-RWJ libraries home page. For those of you with UMDNJ privileges, I highly suggest that you go through the UMDNJ library and take advantage of InfoPOEMs.com. There you can get an excellent evidence based resource called InfoRetriever. It has the 5 Minute Clinical Consult built into it and other guidelines and clinical calculators. It also includes an E/M and ICD-9 coding tool. UMDNJ has an institutional site license so individuals may download and register InfoRetriever for free. I highly recommend doing so.
I welcome your comments and suggestions.
Kennedy
As a resident in the Family Medicine program at UMDNJ-RWJMS, as PGYIIs we had a dedicated 2 week evidence medicine based course that taught us to evaluate literature and determine if it is Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters (POEMS). I would like to suggest some resources below:
1. http://www.sicsebm.org.uk/catmaker.cattips.htm - a great introduction to evaluating articles and making an evidenced based opinion. The evaluation is predicated on using a freeware tool called the CATmaker. CAT stands for Critically Appraised Topic. After discussing with Biren, this may be a potential format that you the collaborator can use to evalate articles relevant to your interest/field of study. The CATmaker allows to output files to HTML, which would make it easy for us to integrate with the future SAHRI website.
2. InfoPOEMs Inc.- can either go there via www.infopoems.com or for those of you in UMDNJ can go through the database link on the main page of the UMDNJ-RWJ libraries home page. For those of you with UMDNJ privileges, I highly suggest that you go through the UMDNJ library and take advantage of InfoPOEMs.com. There you can get an excellent evidence based resource called InfoRetriever. It has the 5 Minute Clinical Consult built into it and other guidelines and clinical calculators. It also includes an E/M and ICD-9 coding tool. UMDNJ has an institutional site license so individuals may download and register InfoRetriever for free. I highly recommend doing so.
I welcome your comments and suggestions.
Kennedy
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