Evidenced-Based Healthcare

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Evidence-based healthcare is the integration of the current best evidence, with clinical judgment, and patient values and circumstances to improve health. This course uses lectures and case-base discussion learning to deliver the theory and practice of evidence-based care implementation. The course will include introductory reviews of PICO development (Patient, Intervention, Comparators, and Outcomes), MEDLINE databases, study design and causality, critical appraisals of RCTs, Systematic Reviews, online research resources such as EBD, TRIP, DARE, and Cochran, Dissemination and Implementation Research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and surveillance & assessment systems.