Evidence Based Medicine

This handout from the Duke Program on Teaching Evidence-Based Practice has great information on using plain language to explain therapy EBM concepts.

Cochrane believes that consumers contributing to its work should be properly equipped to undertake the range of tasks that they undertake. There are a range of online resources to be found on this site. Use the menu list on the left of this page to explore the range of learning materials that are freely available.

This resource was created by a group of physicians that have developed a framework and rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms as well as a system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study.