David Slawson and Allen Shaughnessy.
Academic Medicine
July 2005, Vol. Issue #, pg. 685-689.
Review by: Linda Heun, Ph.D. <lheun@aacom.org>
The authors review the classic EBM approach using a five-step process of developing a questions, finding applicable research, evaluating the research for validity, impact, and applicability, applying the information to clinical decision making, and periodically evaluating one's effectiveness at performing the previous four steps and suggest that this training is not enough for the practice of contemporary medicine. They describe the focus of information management as "using currently available information tools to remain up to date with new valid information that is relevant to the care of patients and is accessible while taking care of patients.
The authors have created teaching/learning module as listed below for three levels of an Information Mastery Curriculum (see the article for Levels 2 and 3 and the url for more information)
Level 1: For all Practicing clinicians
- Information Mastery: Finding the Best Evidence for Every Day Practice
- Is it Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters? Assessing Relevance before Rigor
- Is it True? Evaluating Information about Therapies
- Don't Panic: Basic Statistics you Need and can Understand
- A Pocket Full of Possibilities: "Just-in-Time" Information at the Point of Care
- Evaluating Expert-based Information Systems, Including Colleagues, Continuing Medication Presentations, Reviews, and Practice Guidelines
- Handheld Computers in Medicine
- The True Mission of Information Masters: Using "Medical Poetry" to Reduce Health Disparities
- Is it True? Evaluating Information about Diagnostic Tests and Clinical Decision Rules
- Using Computerized Clinical Decision Rules to Make Clinical Decisions and Obtain CME Credit at the Point of Care
- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Obtaining Useful Information from Pharmaceutical Reps
- Bumps in the Road to Practicing Information Mastery
- "Clinical Jazz: Harmonizing Clinical Experience and Evidence-Based Medicine
Information Practicum and Course
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