Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $210 (nonmember, $260)
Attendance Maximum: 30

Instructor(s): Kathleen Ann McKibbon, associate professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Offered: Friday, May 19, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Although this is an introductory course, those who are interested in evidence-based practice could also benefit from working with the material. Often evidence-based teaching and learning relies on studying various categories of health care research such as therapy, diagnosis, and economics-emphasizing the differences across the categories. Librarians, as teachers, place little emphasis on the aspects of the health care literature that are common to all categories of clinical research. This workshop looks at twelve topics or issues and shows why each is important and how it contributes to understanding the importance and applicability of the clinical content of a study. It also shows participants how to find the information easily and effectively (e.g., the question is almost always the first sentence before a "Methods" section and patient age and gender are found in Table 1).