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evidence-based practice, such as critical appraisal of the medical literature,
freely available, to help you with medical literature
evaluation and other aspects of evidence-based medicine and clinical
healthcare quality improvement steps.
Delfini has many medical education resources, tools and more to help all professionals engaged in clinical quality improvement, medical decision making, improving health care quality, continuing medical education, patient-centered care, doctor patient communications, decision support and more.
If you are engaged in committee work such as pharmacy and therapeutics or medical technology assessment, you will find tips for monograph development, critical appraisal and skills needed for complex endeavors such as comparative effectiveness research (CER), evidence based guidelines, evidence based medicine, evidence based nursing and other aspects of evidence based care.
For those of you whose professional work involves leadership, we provide specifically tailored help in medical leadership, clinical practice guideline development, scientific reviews, cost analysis evaluation and more...
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Favorite Delfini Evidence Assessment Tools
- Searching the Medical
Literature Tool [WORD]
- Evidence Grading,
Wording Conclusions & Results Tables [WORD]
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tool 1-Page
Critical Appraisal Checklist for Interventions [WORD]
& [PDF]
- key
tool Delfini
Validity and Usability Tool (expands upon items in the 1-Page Critical
Appraisal Checklist) [WORD]
- Mini-version of our
critical appraisal tool for primary studies of interventions [WORD]
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tool Delfini
Validity and Usability Tool for Secondary Studies: Systematic Review
Validity Tool [WORD]
- key
tool Project
Appraisal (for critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines
and any other source citing scientific medical evidence) [WORD]
- Health Care Quality
System Assessment Tool [PDF]
and [WORD]
- Pharmacoeconomic Study/Health Care Economic Study Evaluation Tool [WORD]
Favorite Delfini Primers (also see Tools & Other Educational Materials and Evidence Essentials)
- new! Confidence Intervals & Their Use for Interpreting Significance of Results [PDF]
Favorite Delfini Writings & Publications (also see Delfini publications in various sources available online)
- American College of Physician Executives publication page: The EBM Organization 3-part series
- Formulary publication page: Process steps and suggestions for creating drug monographs and drug class reviews in an evidence-based formulary system
Favorite Delfini Communication Aids
- Delfini Rx Messaging Scripts ™: samples
- GLIDE: A Doctor/Patient Encounter Tool [PDF] & [WORD]
- Patient Decision-Aid Example: Delfini Patient Decision Aid for Menopause
Help Freely Available for increasing health care organizations’ and clinicians’ abilities to provide high quality, evidence-based care and improve medical decision-making for organizations, leaders, teams, clinicians, other health professionals and patients.
We are dedicated to helping improve healthcare. To that end, we make nearly all of our resources that we have created freely available on this website. We also find information and resources created by others that we believe will be helpful to you and frequently provide tips and commentaries on these other sources.
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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.Areas We Provide Help In
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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