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FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE TOOLS &
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS and more
IMPORTANT:
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you download tools just-in-time rather than storing them on your
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Primer Series — mini lessions and helpful
tips
Critical
Appraisal Primers
- •Quick
Critical Appraisal Checklist for Efficacy of Therapeutic Interventions
(with supplemental questions for diagnostic testing and screening)
[WORD] &
[PDF]
- The
Problems with Case Series [PDF]
& [WORD]
- updated!
The Problems with the Use of Observational Studies to Draw Cause
and Effect Conclusions About Interventions [PDF]
& [WORD]
- The
Problems with Narrative Reviews [PDF]
& [WORD]
- Evidence
Essentials web page for information on a variety of
important topics Online
- new!
Attrition
Bias [PDF]
& [WORD]
- Pearls:
Reminders for Validity Detectives for Critical Appraisal for
Efficacy of Therapies [PDF]
& [WORD]
- new!
RCT
Design Goals - Superiority, Equivalence & Non-inferiority
[PDF]
& [WORD]
- •new!
Confidence
Intervals & Their Use for Interpreting Significance of Results
[PDF]
- •new!
Oncology
Outcomes [PDF]
Diagnostic
Testing Primer
- Evaluating
Diagnostic Tests: Challenges with Measures of Test Function
[PDF]
& [WORD]
Measurement
Primer (including Performance Measures)
- Quality
Measurement Efforts: Primer [PDF]
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Delfini
Health
Care System Tool Set
- Effective
& Efficient Meetings [WORD]
- Evidence-based
Value Model for Clinical Quality Improvement —
(mini-version only online)
- EBM
Organizational Readiness Tool [WORD]
- EBM
Committee Tips Tool [WORD]
- See
Formulary Management Tool Set below
- EBM
Medical Technology Assessment Committee Tips Tool —
available only through programs
- •Pharmacoeconomic
Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
- •Health
Care Quality System Assessment Tool —
[PDF]
and [WORD]
- newly
available! Suggestions for Evidence-based Quality
Improvement Teams: Conducting Projects [WORD]
- The
Return-on-Investment for EBM [online]
- newly
available! Performance Measures Tool (including
selecting good projects) [WORD]
Delfini
EBM Utility Tool Set
- EBM
Glossary Online
- •Searching
the Medical Literature Tool [WORD]
- Evidence
Review Planning Tools
- Ideals
[WORD]
- Search
Documentation [WORD]
- Web
Links Online
Delfini
Evidence Tool Set
- Study
Summary & Critique [WORD]
- Ideal
Study Parameters [WORD]
- •Evidence
Grading, Wording Conclusions & Results Tables
[WORD]
- •Study
Validity & Evidence Usability Assessment Tool Kit
- Primary
Sources - long version [WORD]
- Quick
Critical Appraisal Checklist for Efficacy of Therapeutic Interventions
(with supplemental questions for diagnostic testing and screening)
[WORD]
& [PDF]
- •
new! Streamlined
for on-line application: Mini-version of our critical
appraisal tool for primary studies of interventions
[WORD]
- Pearls:
Reminders for Validity Detectives for Critical Appraisal for
Efficacy of Therapies [PDF]
& [WORD]
- •Systematic
Review Validity Tool [WORD]
- •Project
Appraisal Tool (this tool can be used to evaluate and
critically appraise Secondary Sources — meaning any healthcare
information source utilizing medical science) [WORD]
- Cochrane/Clinical
Evidence Summary Template [WORD]
- Evidence
Synthesis [WORD]
- More
available online help at Evidence Essentials Online
- •Pharmacoeconomic
Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
- Intervention
Review Template — available only through programs
- Intention-to-Treat
Analysis Calculator [Excel]
- •new!
Oncology
Outcomes [PDF]
Delfini
Formulary Management Tool Set
See also our publication pages:
Formulary
Publication Page
Evidence-based
Pharmacotherapy Publication Page
California
Pharmacist Publication Page
- See above
for Health Care System Tool Set for
Committee Tips Tool
- See above
for Evidence Tool Set
- EBM
Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee Tips Tool —
available only through programs
- Intervention
Review Template — available only through programs
- Pharmacoeconomic
Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
- See below
for Cost Analysis Tool Set
Delfini
Diagnostic Testing Tools
- Diagnostic
Testing Calculator [Excel]
- Evaluating
Diagnostic Tests: Challenges with Measures of Test Function
[PDF]
Delfini
QI Project Tool Set
- Project
Proposal [WORD]
- •Project
Appraisal (critical appraisal tool for secondary sources
— i.e., sources utilizing primary or secondary studies
— including clinical guidelines) [WORD]
- •Pharmacoeconomic
Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
- Project
Change Assessment [WORD]
- Project
Implementation [WORD]
- Performance
Measures (including selecting good projects) —
[WORD]
- Performance
Measures — Quick Tips Checklist [Online]
Delfini
Cost
Analysis Tools
- •Pharmacoeconomic
Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
- NNT
Comparison Calculator [Excel]
- Electronic
Spreadsheet Templates & Approaches (for ideas only!)
Example for projecting impacts of change - Hypothetical
Venous Ulcer Project [PDF]
& [Excel]
(There is no guarantee on the formulas, utility or anything
else — you will need to examine closely and apply your
own Excel skills and common sense to use!)
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Approaches (example online at On The Same
Page™ - Flowing
Evidence into Cost Analysis: Powerful
Ways with NNT)
- IBS
Example — Impact Assessment Template & Sample:
Spreadsheet template included as an optional, customizable
aid designed to help health care organizations project potential
changes which may result from successful guideline implementation.
A completed tool is included as an example and was constructed
using assumptions generated through meetings with national
medical leaders. Overwrite
these assumptions to reflect your own along with your local
conditions. Use to perform sensitivity analyses. Useful, when
modified, for other clinical improvement projects. Click here
to download the sample tool — Impact Assessment
Template [Excel]
Delfini
Patient-centered Communication Tools
For
Health Care Providers:
- Patient
Information & Decision Aids Tool [WORD]
- •Rx
Messaging Scripts Template— targeted treatment
messaging & decision support tools for specific clinical
topics; can also be used in conjunction with the Delfini Patient
Information & Decision Aid Tool for greater depth of script
or aid development [WORD]
- •Patient
Information & Engagement Encounter Map —
communication tool. Direct help for physicians and others who
directly engage with patients to provide information, decision
and action-oriented information, especially during clinical
encounters. [PDF]
& [WORD]
- On
the Same Page ™ — for Practitioner/Patient
Information & Decision Aids
For
Patients:
- Consumer
Tips To Aid in Evaluating Health Care Quality [WORD]
Delfini
EBM Evaluation Tools
- •Health
Care Quality System Assessment Tool —
[PDF]
and [WORD]
- Consumer
Tips To Aid in Evaluating Health Care Quality [WORD]
- Law
& Medicine: Checklist for Evaluating the Evidence-based
Medicine Approach of Medical “Experts” [WORD]
Delfini
Law & Medicine Tool
- Checklist
for Evaluating the Evidence-based Medicine Approach of Medical
“Experts” [WORD]
Delfini
Meeting & Office Management Tools (see above in various
sections for EBM Committee tools)
- Effective
& Efficient Meetings [WORD]
- Agenda
Builder (no instructions provided and requires knowledge
of Excel) [Excel]
- Webinar
Tips [WORD]
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Delfini
SERVICES
We offer a wide
range of supportive
services with the ultimate goal of increasing health
care organizations’ and clinicians’ abilities to provide
high quality, evidence-based care and to
improve medical decision-making for organizations, leaders,
teams, clinicians and patients.
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Creating the EBM Organization • Creating the Evidence-based
Practitioner
Help for organizations to position for evidence-based care and
health care quality; help for healthcare leaders and for individuals
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Evidence-based Healthcare Educational Opportunities
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
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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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Committee Help
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
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Quality Improvement Teams
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
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Healthcare Leadership Help
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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More to achieve quality in healthcare...
Delfini
SERVICES
We offer a wide
range of supportive
services with the ultimate goal of increasing health
care organizations’ and clinicians’ abilities to
provide high quality, evidence-based care and
to improve medical decision-making for organizations,
leaders, teams, clinicians and patients.
Delfini
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