LibGuides: Exercise Science: Evidence Based Resources

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) integrates the following 3 factors into the decision-making process for patient care:

Clinical Expertise (the clinician’s cumulated experience, education and clinical skills)
Patient Values (the patient's own personal preferences and unique concerns, expectations, and values)
Best Research Evidence (usually found in clinically relevant research that has been conducted using sound methodology)

Resources

Evidence-Based Practice requires new skills of the clinician, including
efficient literature searching, and the application of formal rules of
evidence in evaluating the clinical literature.

THE STEPS:

1. ASK the question
Construct a well built clinical question derived from a clinical problem or question that arises from the care of a patient

2. ACQUIRE the evidence
Select the appropriate resource(s) and conduct a search

3. APPRAISE the evidence
Appraise that evidence for its validity (closeness to the truth)
and applicability (usefulness in clinical practice)

4. APPLY: talk with the patient
Return to the patient -- integrate that evidence with
clinical expertise, patient preferences and apply it to practice

5. ASSESS the process
Evaluate your performance with this patient

Evidence-Based Practice Tutorials:

Evidence-based practice database videos

Presentation and videos demonstrating EBP searching in Cochrane, CINAHL, Dynamed, PubMed and PsycINFO. Also a presentation on PICO.

Evidence-Based Practice tutorial

This is an interactive module-style tutorial from the Duke University Medical Center.

Critical Appraisal Tools

Appraisal worksheets to evaluate research studies for validity. From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)

Introduction to Evidence-based Medicine

This tutorial provides individuals with a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-based Medicine. It was created by the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library, UNC Chapel Hill.

CEBM - Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)

This website contains details of learning resources available from the Centre and collaborative departments. CEBM aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care through conferences, workshops and EBM tools so that all health care professionals can maintain the highest standards of medicine.

Metrics Toolkit

A resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact.

Quantitative and Qualitative research guides and tutorials:

Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Distinguishing Article Type

This guide will help you determine if an article is secondary research (a review article), primary research or a systematic review / meta-analysis. It also distinguishes between qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Quantitative Research Design

A summary of quantitative research design from Sportscience.org. Describes types of design, sampling, and selecting variables

Qualitative Research Review Guidelines -RATS

Provides guidelines to assess a Qualitative Research

Study Design

This short article gives a brief guide to the different study types and a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages.