Evidence Based Health Care

Learning to Practice and Teach Evidence Based Health Care

Third annual workshop

September 12-13, 2008
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Robert M. Bird Library Auditorium
1000 Stanton L. Young
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

This page includes the latest information as this year's workshop plans crystallize.

Previous EBHC workshops

Inaugural workshop, September 8-9, 2006
Second annual workshop, September 21-22, 2007

2008 Workshop Registration Form

Registration is now open; deadline is Friday, September 5, 2008

2008 Workshop Agenda

This draft agenda outlines the framework for the plenary and small group sessions, and will be updated as plans progress.

Plenary Sessions

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 statistical and methodological terms commonly used in EBM, published by the APC Journal Club.
Small Group Session 1: Therapy
Article for small group discussion (to be posted week of September 1, 2008)
Plenary presentations and small group resources
CASP guiding questions for a randomized clinical trial

Small Group Session 2: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
Tentative article for small group discussion (to be finalized and posted week of September 1, 2008): Vlad S.C., LaValley, M.P., McAlindon, T.E., & Felson, D.T. (2007). Glucosamine for pain in osteoarthritis: Why do trial results differ? Arthritis & Rheumatism, 56(7), 2267-77.
Plenary presentations and small group resources
CASP guiding questions for a systematic review
Moher D, Cook JC, Eastwood S, Olkin I, Rennie D, Stroup DF. (1999). Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials: The QUORUM statement. Lancet, 354, 1896-1900.
Stroup, D.F., Berlin, J.A., Morton, S.C., Olkin, I., Williamson, G.D., Rennie, D., Moher, D., Becker, B.J., Sipe, T.A., & Thacker, S.B. for the Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) Group. (2000). Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: A proposal for reporting. JAMA, 283, 2008-2012.
Meta-analysis and “statistical aggregation”, Dave Thompson, Ph.D., Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, OUHSC

Small Group Session 3: Point of Service Information Acquisition
Article for small group discussion (to be posted week of September 1, 2008)
Plenary presentations and small group resources

The Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library

Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC) Resources

EBM texts:

Gordon Guyatt, Maureen Meade, Drummond Rennie, (2008). User's guides to the medical literature: A manual for evidence-based clinical practice (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill (ISBN: ISBN: 007159034X).
Straus, Sharon E., Richardson, W. Scott, Glasziou, Paul, & Haynes, R. Brian. (2005). Evidence based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM. Churchill Livingstone (ISBN: 0443074445)

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

Last updated 8-21-2008 Workshop home page