{"id":1931,"date":"2018-06-14T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=1931"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:19:23","slug":"ebm-intro-p5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p5\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Information Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Where do I start?<\/h4>\n<p>Background Information Resources are a great place to start the EBM process. They provide broad overviews of medical topics, which help increase your understanding of the topics and acquaint you with the related evidence-based literature.<\/p>\n<p><em>Examples of Background Information Resources:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Evidence-Based Topic Overviews<\/h4>\n<p><span>Evidence-Based Topic Oveviews broadly summarize the available evidence-based literature on topics without specifically focusing on a particular clinical question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American College of Physicians&#8217;<span>\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.statref.com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/TOC.aspx?grpalias=BUSoM&amp;FxId=92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACP PIER<\/a><\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>and BMJ&#8217;s<span>\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/clinicalevidence.bmj.com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/ceweb\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clinical Evidence<\/a><\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>are two valuable e-textbooks for Evidence-Based Topic Overviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements<\/h4>\n<p>Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements are carefully considered treatment guidelines, often published and updated by government or professional associations, that represent the preferred or gold standard treatment strategies for common diseases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/clinic\/epcix.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>is a great starting point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p6\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Where do I start? Background Information Resources are a great place to start the EBM process. They provide broad overviews of medical topics, which help increase your understanding of the topics and acquaint you with the related evidence-based literature. Examples of Background Information Resources:\u00a0 Evidence-Based Topic Overviews Evidence-Based Topic Oveviews broadly summarize the available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":1914,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1931\/revisions\/15149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}