Hi Robin,
Just to add that POEMs are still regularly produced by Essential Evidence Plus www.essentialevidenceplus.com (formerly InfoRetriever). You are right that they critically abstract a paper whether a systematic review or a primary study.
I am sure you are aware of the host of abstracting journals (producing one page summary) such as the ACP Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine, EB Nursing, etc.
Best wishes,
Lubna Al-Ansary
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On 2011-09-15, at 9:13 PM, Robin Whyte <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm trying to sort out Critically Appraised Topics and Patient
> Oriented Evidence that Matters (POEMS). The CATS site at CEBM looks
> relatively unvisited and I think the CAT-bank has disappeared. I think
> POEMs disappeared some time ago from BMJ.
>
> Both CATS and POEMS were supposed to address a clinical question (in
> which case both would either evoke either a systematic review or
> several high quality primary publications) but in fact both seem to
> have been used to critically evaluate a single publication, the
> 'question' being generated retrospectively from the journal article
> (which is a different exercise altogether). Were CATS originally
> question-initiated and POEMS publication-initiated? Are CATS dead?
>
> I use a POEM/PICOT format for teaching residents to critically
> evaluate the literature.
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