Online Continuing Education Courses

Evidence Based Practice: Asking the Questions and Searching For Evidence

• Define Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
• Identify problems/obstacles to EBP
• Outline the process of EBP
• Learn how to ask good clinical questions: PICO
• Describe how to search PubMed and learn how PubMed translates a search query
• Define MeSH terms and describe their use
• Illustrate how to limit or broaden your search to find the appropriate content
• Compare the results of boolean operators AND, OR and NOT