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Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action


NOTE:  At this time March 25, 2008 the course says it is full and you cannot enroll.  Try again later.


Done by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and created by Kay Dickersin, MA, PhD and Musa Mayer, MS, MFA.  You have to go to the web site and sign up for the course, at no cost.  Sign up by going to their website by clicking "here".  Prostate-Help is not involved in the course just offer it for your consideration.  I have not taken the course and would like feedback from any who have.


Here is what it offers:

This web course has been created by the United States Cochrane Center as part of a project undertaken by Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE), and is designed to help consumer advocates understand the fundamentals of evidence-based healthcare concepts and skills. Course registration will be offered every month. Participants will have three months to complete the course and must commit to completing all evaluations.


Course Objectives:

Our goals in this course are to provide consumer advocates with the tools they need to:

Successfully navigate the world of medical information,

Critically appraise research studies,

Influence the creation of responsible public policy in healthcare, and

Help the people they serve to make healthcare choices based on the best available evidence.


Course Description:

In these six modules, we will illustrate key concepts with compelling real-world examples, covering the following topics and issues: 

Module 1. INTRO: What is evidence-based healthcare and why is it important?

Module 2. ASK: The importance of research questions in evidence based healthcare.

Module 3. ALIGN: Research design, bias and levels of evidence.

Module 4. ACQUIRE: Searching for healthcare information. Assessing harms and benefits.

Module 5. APPRAISE: Behind the numbers: Understanding healthcare statistics. Science, speed and the search for best evidence.

Module 6: APPLY: Critical appraisal and making better decisions for evidence-based healthcare, Determining causality.

 


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