You just examined a patient with COPD exacerbation with a trainee.
Your trainee asks, "What is the evidence behind non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV)?" You remember a few papers about it, but not the specifics about the studies. Are there quick sites to search on the fly without looking up Google or Wikipedia?
Introducing:
EBM on the go
This website contains a list of high-quality sites with Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) literature. Some sites have commentary, and some have quick sections that can be skimmed. It is built by Dr. J Thull-Freedman, a pediatric emergency physician at Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.
Here is a search via DARE (Database of Abstracts of Review of Effects):
This is a great platform to search the most updated information quickly. I am definitely going to use it at work!
Great tip, Stella!!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Great find, Stella. I really do think have of the job of practicing EBM is merely finding WHERE to go to find your answer. This helps a ton.
ReplyDeleteOne of several useful websites available to facilitate bedside teaching in emergency medicine. Another is
ReplyDeletehttp://emed.wustl.edu/em_journal_club.html which provides detailed monthly secondary peer reviewed synopses using the User's Guide principles.
Last month's CORD-themed issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (Incorporating Evidence-based Medicine into Resident Education: A CORD Survey of Faculty and Resident Expectations, Oct 2010; 17(Suppl 2): S54-S61) offered a snapshot of what program directors view as essential for residents to learn about EBM).
Dr. SMF, Michelle: Thanks! I agree we need more time-saving links like that.
ReplyDeletecarpenterc: Thanks for the info. I will add that as my resource!
Chris: Thanks for the link to your journal club site. It looks like you've put in a lot of work into the site to make it user-friendly, practical, and educational.
ReplyDeleteSaw your interesting article in the CORD/CDEM supplement of AEM. Pulling off an EBM curriculum indeed is challenging and it's inconsistent nationwide in the GME EM curriculum. It'd be great to have a standardized national EBM curriculum as you propose in your article.