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Dear All, I am looking for suggestions please. I am trying to put together a reading list of "essential" readings in EBM. These are ones beyond the primer stage, aimed at postgraduates interested in an in-depth understanding of EBM. So do you have key articles you can suggest? I have appended my tentative list below (but you might like to think about your own first), Many thanks Paul Glasziou Essential Readings in EBM 1. Straus SE, McAlister FA. Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on common criticisms. CMAJ. 2000 Oct 3;163(7):837-41. 2. Antman EM, Lau J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller F, Chalmers TC. A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial infarction. JAMA. 1992 Jul 8;268(2):240-8. 3. McAlister FA, Clark HD, van Walraven C, Straus SE, Lawson FM, Moher D, Mulrow CD. The medical review article revisited: has the science improved? Ann Intern Med. 1999 Dec 21;131(12):947-51. 4. Haynes RB. Of studies, syntheses, synopses, summaries, and systems: the "5S" evolution of information services for evidence-based healthcare decisions. Evid Based Med. 2006 Dec;11(6):162-4. 5. McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Med. 2004 Sep 6;2:33. 6. Chan AW, Hrobjartsson A, Haahr MT, Gotzsche PC, Altman DG. Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized trials: comparison of protocols to published articles. JAMA. 2004 May 26;291(20):2457-65. 7. Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Hayes RJ, Altman DG. Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA. 1995 Feb 1;273(5):408-12. 8. Glasziou P, Chalmers I, Rawlins M, McCulloch P. When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise. BMJ. 2007 Feb 17;334(7589):349-51. 9. Guyatt GH, Meade MO, Jaeschke RZ, Cook DJ, Haynes RB. Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ. 2000 Apr 8;320(7240):954-5. 10. Coomarasamy A, Khan KS What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic review. 2004;329;1017 BMJ 11. Jackson R, Ameratunga S, Broad J, Connor J, Lethaby A, Robb G, Wells S, Glasziou P, Heneghan C. The GATE frame: critical appraisal with pictures. Evid Based Med. 2006 Apr;11(2):35-8. 12. Sackett DL, Straus SE. Finding and applying evidence during clinical rounds: the "evidence cart". JAMA. 1998 Oct 21;280(15):1336-8. 13. Straus SE, Ball C, Balcombe N, Sheldon J, McAlister FA. Teaching evidence-based medicine skills can change practice in a community hospital. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Apr;20(4):340-3. -- Paul Glasziou Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford www.cebm.net ph +44-1865-289298 fax +44-1865-227036 (please note new phone number)