Users' guides to the medical literature: XXII: how to use articles about clinical decision rules

TG McGinn, GH Guyatt, PC Wyer, CD Naylor, IG Stiell… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Clinical experience provides clinicians with an intuitive sense of which findings on history,
physical examination, and investigation are critical in making an accurate diagnosis, or an …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic)

T McGinn, PC Wyer, TB Newman, S Keitz, R Leipzig - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/171/11/1369/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

Knowledge translation: closing the evidence-to-practice gap

ES Lang, PC Wyer, RB Haynes - Annals of emergency medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Knowledge translation describes any activity or process that facilitates the transfer of high-quality
evidence from research into effective changes in health policy, clinical practice, or …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat

A Barratt, PC Wyer, R Hatala, T McGinn, AL Dans… - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/171/4/353/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

Preventive care in the emergency department, part II: clinical preventive services—an emergency medicine evidence‐based review

CB Irvin, PC Wyer, LW Gerson… - Academic …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) provide an opportunity to initiate preventive
services for millions of Americans who have no other source for these services. Objectives: To …

Where is the wisdom? I–A conceptual history of evidence‐based medicine

PC Wyer, SA Silva - Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale Evidence‐based medicine (EBM) has been acclaimed as a major advance in
medical science, but criticized as a proposed alternative model for the practice and teaching of …

Preventive Care in the Emergency Department: Should Emergency Departments Conduct Routine HIV Screening? A Systematic Review

…, KS Ketlogetswe, T Dolan, PC Wyer… - Academic …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To perform a systematic review of the emergency medicine literature to assess the
appropriateness of offering routine HIV screening to patients in the emergency department (…

'A local habitation and a name': how narrative evidence‐based medicine transforms the translational research paradigm

…, MJ Devlin, L Falzon, PC Wyer - Journal of Evaluation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale We propose narrative evidence‐based medicine as a necessary elaboration of the
NIH translational research roadmap. The roadmap defined two complex obstacles, T1 and …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 2. Measures of precision (confidence intervals)

VM Montori, J Kleinbart, TB Newman, S Keitz, PC Wyer… - CMAJ, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/171/6/611/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

Evidence-based emergency medicine/critically appraised topic. Evidence behind the 4-hour rule for initiation of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia.

KT Yu, PC Wyer - Annals of emergency medicine, 2008 - europepmc.org
Study objective US regulatory authorities mandate delivery of antibiotics within 4 hours of
arrival for patients being admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. This …