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An evidence-based healthcare approach matters to care for patients effectively, improve patient safety and reduce waste.
Help in understanding and applying medical science: evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice help in other disciplines for health care professionals and for others including patients.
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Making the Work of Medical Librarians Easier and More Effective in Helping with Evidence-based Health Care Quality Improvements
Effective and efficient searching of scientific research is one of the essential components of evidence-based practice. It important to know methods for successfully obtaining the needed medical evidence, and it is important to understand how basic study design matters in addressing different medical questions such as those dealing with therapies and patient safety.
Further, medical librarians can play a crucial role in guiding clinicians, researchers and others in finding and obtaining needed medical evidence.
Also key is an awareness that most of the scientific research in the medical literature is not valid or clinically useful, and most health care professionals — including physicians, pharmacists, nurses, researchers and other allied heath care professions — frequently do not get basic training in evidence-based medicine principles. Therefore, this affects both the quality of the scientific research produced in the medical literature and the use of scientific information.
Bottom-line: There is a difference between knowing what is reported and knowing what is valid & clinically useful. We can help you help others make this distinction.
- Read why an evidence-based approach to health care quality is vitally important and about the surprising problems with even our most "trusted" medical information sources.
- Read our Report on EBM Quiz Failures.
We can provide you with effective training and advice that can help you increase your abilities to be an effective partner in helping address these key problems and in helping improve health care clinical improvement activities including the conduct of research, creating a systematic review, developing evidence-based clinical guidelines, enhancing medical decision making with effective decision support, identifying patient safety information, assisting with formulary management needs and medical technology assessment and developing appropriate performance measurement metrics including pay-for-performance (P4P). All activities vital to health care quality.
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| Mike Stuart was the director of medical libraries at Group Health in Seattle for 18 years. Both Mike and Sheri have experience training medical librarians in evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice techniques for health care quality improvement projects. We have collaborated with medical librarians to teach clinicians the basics of finding potentially valid and useful information, searching and effective use of medical libraries and research searching. For example, Sheri worked with the medical librarians at UCSD and both Sheri and Mike co-presented, with medical librarians, information modules that included tips on identifying useful information sources, searching and filtering techniques to physicians and others learning continuous quality improvement techniques at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. We collaborated with medical librarians on a number of projects for Kaiser Permanente and more. Contact us to discuss your needs. |
Help for organizations to position for evidence-based care and health care quality; help for healthcare leaders and for individuals
Medical education and continuing medical education resources to provide evidence-based practice (EBP) training in evidence-based medicine (EBM), evidence-based nursing & other disciplines — we provide training in, and facilitation of, all aspects of evidence-based health care such as in critical appraisal to help you with medical literature review of scientific research studies and in performing all aspects of healthcare quality improvement activities
• Evidence
Assessment Training
How to perform a scientific review such as a systematic review and
evidence synthesis and how to create a clinical review, clinical recommendation,
clinical practice guideline, drug monograph, medical technology assessment,
scientific research paper, performance measure, medical decision-making
support such as communication aid and shared decision-making aid,
patient safety advisory or other evidence-based clinical information
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Evidence Reviews & Clinical Content
We can be engaged to perform scientific literature reviews to create
systematic reviews, including comparative effectiveness research (CER),
and can supply any kind of clinical content or clinical information
item you wish such as those listed including clinical guidelines,
drug monographs, decision support and more
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Help for committee work such as pharmacy and therapeutics committee
(P & T committee) or medical technology assessment by providing
evidence-based guidelines and process steps including tips for all
aspects of committee work from committee management, structures, processes
and to clinical pharmacist education to inform all aspect of staff
work such as conducting evidence-based reviews, development of drug
monographs, meeting presentations and more such as formulary management
advice
Help for quality improvement teams by providing facilitation of facilitation of steps in systematic literature review, clinical practice guidelines development and clinical improvement projects, including project selection for success, cost analysis, implementation strategies and measuring performance for quality improvement in health care
If you are a healthcare leader, especially a medical leader or pharmacy leader, we have special help for you through our services and through our other website, medicalleaders.org — we can provide a variety of services including strategies for effectiveness in quality management in healthcare, how to identify good clinical practice guidelines, patient-centered care strategies including doctor patient communication training, performance measurement training and development of effective performance measures, tips for meeting management and more in your efforts for improving healthcare quality in your organization to provide true evidence-based health care
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