Finding the evidence: teaching medical residents to search MEDLINE.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Instructional methods used by health sciences librarians to teach evidence-based practice (EBP): a systematic review.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years - a protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2011
   Trial
3. A training intervention to improve information management in primary care.Family medicine · 2008
   Trial
4. Real-time EBM: from bed board to keyboard and back.Journal of general internal medicine · 2007
   Trial
5. Educational interventions to improve literature searching skills in the health sciences: a scoping review.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2020
   Article
6. Evaluation of an evidence-based medicine educational intervention in a regional medical campus.Canadian medical education journal · 2018
   Article
7. Is literature search training for medical students and residents effective? a literature review.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2012
   Review
8. A centralized practice-based learning and improvement curriculum for residents and fellows: a collaboration of health sciences librarians and graduate medical education administration.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2010
   Article
9. Impact of an evidence-based medicine curriculum on medical students' attitudes and skills.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2004
   Article

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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