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Other sources for scenarios to use as teaching examples:



  • Top Ten Medical Stories for 2008
    This year marked a number of important medical advances and intriguing health news. To help narrow the large list, ABCNews.com reached out to the top medical centers and doctors in a wide range of fields.Below is ABCNews.com's list of the Top 10 medical stories of 2008, deemed most important by doctors and found most interesting by readers. This is a good source for search examples.

  • AHRG WebM&M
    AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web) is the online journal and forum on patient safety and health care quality. This site features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by our readers, interactive learning modules on patient safety ("Spotlight Cases"), and Perspectives on Safety.Good resource for finding cases for teaching Medline, EBM, etc.

Provides a case and then a critical appraisal of an article. This link is to the resulkts of a search in BMJ for "evidence based case report", an ongoing series in BMJ.

Specific articles that may be helpful for case studies and teaching examples:

  • Schaafsma F. Caution required when relying on a colleague's advice; a comparison between professional advice and evidence from the literature. BMC Health Services Research . August 31 2005. [Includes a list of 12 case vignettes with correct evidence based answer.
  • Browman GP. Essence of evidence-based medicine: a case report. Journal of Clinical Oncology 17(7):1969-73, July 1999.




  • Miser WF. Critical Appraisal of the Literature at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/417866 (viewed 12/23/2005) or J Am Board Fam Pract. 1999 Jul-Aug;12(4):315-33.


  • Rowe BH. Nebulized ipratropium bromide in acute pediatric asthma: does it reduce hospital admissions among children presenting to the emergency department? Annals of Emergency Medicine 34(10):75-85, July 1999.


  • Weinfeld, JM. How to answer your clinical questions more efficiently. Family Practice Management July/August 2005; 12(7):37-41.

  • Wiebe S. An evidence based approach to the first unprovoked seizure. Can J Neurol Sci. 2002 May;29(2):120-4.

  • Zakowski L. Evidence-based Medicine: answering questions of diagnosis. Clinical Medicine & Research. Dec 2003;2(1):63-69.

Journals (in alpha order)

Check out these sites for hot topics (what physicians and patients may be reading or listening to in news)
  • New York Times-Health
  • National Public Radio-Health
  • Journal Watch http://www.jwatch.org/ (This updating service (from publishers of NEJM) might be another way for us to identify topics and studies of interest to various groups when we are planning training sessions on EBM searching. Some of the summaries/critiques are free and some require subscription, but even if we can't read the whole item it gives a good idea of what's of interest to the section editors. This covers specialties other than general internal medicine and might be more useful in that respect than ACP Journal Club. If you register you can see the full text of the archives (older than 6 mos).)
  • Reuters

  • Research Activities. a digest of research findings from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); great ideas for scenario topics;


Databases (in alpha order)
  • ACP Journal Club (hot topics)
  • Cochrane Library
  • TRIP
  • Lab Tests Onlineà "In the News" section
  • UpToDate, look in the "What's New" section

Clinical questions