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Core Topics in Evidence-Based Medicine

	Learn how to recognize, classify, and prioritize important patient or policy problems.
	Construct clinical questions that facilitate an efficient search for evidence.
	Gather important and convincing evidence from high-quality repositories of the health literature.
	Systematically check best available evidence for indications of validity, importance, and usefulness.
	Interpret the applicability of evidence to specific problems, given patient preferences and values.

	In Practice
	From The Rational Clinical Examination Clubbing A 24-year-old male intravenous drug user presents to the emergency department with fatigue and... Continue reading See also: *Make the Diagnosis: Clubbing*

	May 2011 \| Featured on JAMAevidence
	JAMAevidence PODCAST Timothy E. Quill, MD, discusses initiating end-of-life discussions with seriously ill patients. (7:58) Download this Podcast \| View All New chapter from Users' Guides to the Medical Literature How to Use an Article About Quality Improvement New Education Guides from Care at the Close of Life Integrating Palliative Care for Liver Transplant Candidates Palliative Care for Patients with Heart Failure New updates to the Glossary April-June 2011: Aura; Migraine, acephalgic; Migraine, classic; Retinal detachment; Retinal perforation ; Slitlamp examination; Traube space; Visual acuity; Visual field; Vitreous detachment; Vitreous hemorrhage More than 250 palliative care glossary terms have been added to the JAMAevidence Glossary with the release of Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience. Click to view the full JAMAevidence Glossary or only the Care at the Close of Life Glossary. Top searched terms in the glossary systematic review randomized controlled trial meta-analysis clinical prediction/decision rules sensitivity CALCULATOR Number Needed to Treat Nomogram

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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition

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Diagnostic Tests

In this chapter, we show you how to use an article addressing the ability of a diagnostic test... Continue reading

The Rational Clinical Examination

The Rational Clinical Examination
Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis

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Heart Failure

A broad range of prior probabilities (10%-40%) is required for clinical decisions, with outpatients who have suggestive symptoms... Continue reading

Care at the Close of Life

Care at the Close of Life
Evidence and Experience

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Conflict

Mrs B was an 84-year-old woman with advanced dementia who developed an aspiration pneumonia.... Continue reading

	Education Guides
	The Rational Clinical Examination Education Guide: Urinary Tract Infection, Child View Online Slideshow \| Download PowerPoint View all Education Guides View sample slideshow from Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature View sample slideshow from The Rational Clinical Examination View sample slideshow from Care at the Close of Life

	This Week's JAMA
	JAMA Vol 305, No 18, May 11, 2011 • Intravenous Erythropoietin in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: REVEAL: A Randomized Controlled Trial [Original Contribution] • A Genomic Predictor of Response and Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Invasive Breast Cancer [Original Contribution] • Patterns and Intensity of Medical Therapy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [Original Contribution] • Medical Error: A 60-Year-Old Man With Delayed Care for a Renal Mass [Clinical Crossroads]

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