Evidence Based Health Care

Learning to Practice and Teach Evidence Based Health Care

Second annual workshop

September 21-22, 2007
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Robert M. Bird Library Auditorium
1000 Stanton L. Young
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Faculty

Workshop Agenda

Keynote address:

Public Health Grand Rounds: "Evidence Based Medicine: A Paradigm for Improving Patient Care and Public Health Policy"
Thursday, September 20, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Oklahoma City - Robert M. Bird Library Auditorium, 1000 Stanton L. Young Boulevard
Tulsa - SAC 3102

Plenary Sessions

Welcome! (Robert A. Wild, MD, Ph.D., M.P.H, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology)
Why EBM?(Robert H. Roswell, MD, Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean, College of Medicine, OUHSC)
"Evidence Based Medicine, a Span of Twenty Year's Experience" (Jerry Vannatta, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and John Flack Burton Professor of Humanities in Medicine)
"Navigating Library Resources" (Marti Thompson, Director, Bird Health Sciences Library; Rhett Jackson, MD, College of Medicine)
"Facets of Teaching Evidence-based Health Care: The OU Family Medicine Experience" (Dewey Scheid, MD, Clinical Decision Making Program, Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine, OUHSC)

Small group sessions

The workshop format emulates a very successful model developed by the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Small group sessions, led by teams comprised of clinicians, clinical epidemiology specialists, and reference librarians, provide participants with opportunities for practice.
The small groups discuss articles from the medical literature, and use guiding questions originally developed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme or CASP. Another useful set of Users' Guides were originally published in a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
A glossary of EBM terms, published by the APC Journal Club, provides definitions of statistical and methodological terms.
Small Group Session 1: Therapy and Prevention
Vaira, D., Zullo, A., Vakil, N., Gatta, L., Ricci, C., Perna, F., Hassan, C., Bernabucci, V., Tampieri, A., & Moroni, S. (2007). Sequential therapy versus standard triple-drug therapy for Helicobacter pylori eradication: A randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 146(8), 556-563.
CASP guiding questions for a randomized clinical trial
Session 2: Diagnosis and Screening
Aschwanden, M., Labs, K.H., Jeanneret, C., Gehrig, A., & Jaeger, K.A. (1999). The value of rapid D-dimer testing combined with structured clinical evaluation for the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 30(5), 929-35.
CASP guiding questions for a diagnostic test
Estimating the odds of disease -- given the results of a diagnostic or screening test -- using likelihood ratios (from the Univ. of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine )
Session 3: Prognosis
Landhuis, C.E., Poulton, R., Welch, D., & Hancox, R.J. (2007). Does childhood television viewing lead to attention problems in adolescence? Results from a prospective, longitudinal study. Pediatrics, 120, 532-37.
CASP guiding questions for a cohort (prospective) study
"How to Use an Article about Prognosis" authored by Andreas Laupacis, George Wells, W. Scott Richardson, and Peter Tugwell for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, Centre for Health Evidence
Other resources relevant to the reading and assessment of medical literature are available that relate to diagnosis, therapy and prevention, and prognosis.

The Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library

Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC) Resources

Previous EBHC workshops

Inaugural workshop, September 8-9, 2006
Workshop directors: Robert A. Wild, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Women's Health Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, College of Medicine, OUHSC
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, OUHSC
David M. Thompson, Ph.D., P.T.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, OUHSC

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