Evidence-Based Practice Module
From:- Wai-Ching Leung and colleagues wp102@yahoo.com
Prognosis

2. Read this article on how to appraise a paper on prognosis and apply it to your patient:-

Laupacis A, Wells G, Scott Richardson W, Tugwell P. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature - How to use an article about prognosis. JAMA 1994; 272(3): 234-237.

3. Use the glossary to check the meaning of "inception cohort".

4. Read through the appraisal tool and case scenario.

5. You need following paper to work through the case scenario:-

6. Presentation on 9th session (5th December)
Presentation guidelines can be downloaded here.

You should now be able to collaborate with your partners for both presentations using student conferencing. Just log on to Student conference, you should see your two topic numbers and the name of your partner for each topic. If you go to the menu "more" and "conference profile", you can even see the topic of your two presentations. Any messages sent via these conferences can only be read by your partner for that topic. Try them out now to make sure they work. If you have difficulties accessing these conferences, please let me know.

If you are unclear about what you are supposed to do, read the presentation guidelines carefully. The main purpose is to help your fellow students in understanding specific aspects of the relationship between policy and evidence based practice. You will find relevant reading material for your presentation in the updated reading list in the "policy", "implementation", and "critique" sections. You and your partner have a maximum total time of 15 minutes for presenting each topic. If you are still unclear, let me know via e-mail or online queries form.


7. What has electronic conferencing to do with real-life clinical practice or practising evidence-based practice? Have a look at the "academic and professional discussion lists" section in the search page. These are lists maintained by Higher Education. Find some lists relevant to your own practice. One often obtains the most up-to-date information on a specialist subject from experts all over the world via these lists. If you cannot find what you want, have a look at e-groups.com - they include lists of almost any topics you can think of. In order to get the most of of these lists, it is essential to know the technical details in using these lists. This is one (of many) reasons why electronic conferencing forms an important part of this module. We will look at other reasons later on in the course, especially in relation to real-time conferencing.

8. Read this important article on finding information and communicating electronically.

Wyatt, JC. Knowledge and the internet. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2000; 93: 565-570.

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last modified November 2001