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Step 5:
  • Communication and Evaluation
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Table of Contents
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Your results are
important to:
  • Your patients


  • Other health professionals


  • Yourself
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Communication with  Your Patients
  • Critical to the success of practicing EBM
  • The explanation of the best evidence in terms or risks, benefits, and alternatives is necessary for your patient to make an informed decision.
  • Must be in terms that patients understand
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Video 1
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Communication with Other Health Professionals
  • Part of the team approach to patient care


  • May cause a colleague or an institution to change the standard way of practicing
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Evaluation of Yourself
  • Ask questions more appropriately


  • Seek better solutions
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How did you do?

Are you asking well-built clinical questions?
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Video 3
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How did you do?

Are you finding the best evidence available?
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How did you do?

Are you efficient at finding the best evidence?
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How did you do?

Can you appraise your findings?
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Case Example Question
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A Case Example
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Case Example Answer
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How did you do?

Are you becoming more accurate in applying some of the critical appraisal measures such as likelihood ratios, NNT, NNH, and relative risks?
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How did you do?

Can you integrate your findings to your patient?
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How did you do?

Are you able to communicate your results to your patient in a way to make him/her better informed?
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How did you do?

Are you able to justify why you did or did not follow a clinical decision based on integration of the evidence with an individual patient?
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How did you do?

Are you able to see development in quality improvement measures as a result of implementing EBM in daily practice?
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Links to Other Websites
and Hands-On Activities
  • Evaluation Questions
    • from the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine
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Congratulations!
You have  successfully completed step 5.
The End