Evidence-Based On-Call
Clinicians suffer from information overload. Worse still, most of it is
rubbish and out-of-date. Evidence-Based Medicine offers a way of cutting
through the garbage to the good-quality material. However busy clinicians
find EBM time-consuming and difficult to put into practice.
A team of clinicians at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford,
England has set up "Evidence-Based On-Call" to meet the challenge of
providing clinically relevant evidence-based advice at the bedside. EBOC
will produce practical advice on common on-call problems by using the best
evidence available to create easy-to-use guidelines.
The Oxford team will use high-quality techniques to search the literature
for the best journal articles on specific on-call problems. EBOC has
developed an internet authoriting tool allowing clinicians with EBM
experience to create one-page summaries of these articles. These
summaries, known as critically-appraised topics or CATs, will be added to
a central electronic database and used to create clinical guidelines. A
panel of clinical experts will review each guide before it is published in
print, on CD-ROM and on the internet. The Oxford team will monitor the
literature and update CATs and guides regularly. The first book covering
50 acute medical problems will be published in Spring 2000. Other
specialities will be covered over the next three years.
We are looking for clinicians from all specialities and at all levels of
experience to participate in Evidence-Based On-Call. You can help us in a
number of ways:
Contributors:
You should have experience of critical appraisal. You must be prepared to
participate for at least one year, and have access to e-mail and the
internet. You should be willing to take responsibility for a specific
clinical topic, and create and appraise up to 50 CATs a year. In return,
all your material will be peer-reviewed and published electronically, and
you will receive a fee when we use your material in a publication. We
will provide a free one-day workshop on writing and appraising CATs,
software designed for remote authority over the internet, discounts on our
products and an annual dinner.
Reviewers:
You should be an experienced practising clinician. You should be able to
provide expert comment on a common clinical problem, specifically
concentrating on the clinical utility and safety of the CATs and guides
created. You must be prepared to work on the project for at least one
year and have access to e-mail and the internet. You should be willing to
comment on up to 25 CATs a year and 2 guidelines. You will receive a fee
for reviewing guidelines, software designed for remote authoring,
discounts on our products and an annual dinner.
Check out our website at http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/eboc/eboc.html for a
sample guideline and some CATs. Contact Chris Ball for more details at:
EBOC Office
Cairns Library
Level 3 Academic Street
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 221945
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Olive Goddard
Project Manager, EBOC
Centre and Editorial Manager
NHS R&D Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
University of Oxford
NDM, Level 5, The John Radcliffe
Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
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WWW:http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +44 (0)1865-221 320 Fax: +44 (0)1865 - 222 901
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