Practitioners met in Keystone, Colorado August 8-12 at the 6th Rocky Mountain Workshop on practicing evidence-based healthcare. The Evidence-Based Healthcare Workshop. The focus was on evidence-based medicine, typically defined as 'the explicit, conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients or the delivery of health services.'
Participants learned practical strategies:"... developed over the past three decades by clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, health economists and others working together to combine basic scientific principles with common sense. Our workshop faculty includes leading evidence-based health care researchers and educators.
"Past participants have included physicians, nurses, policy makers, physical therapists, medical librarians, health care journalists and educators. Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Formulate questions arising from their own health care practice that can be answered.
- Identify relevant evidence that can be used to answer questions and make well-informed clinical decisions.
- Critically appraise the validity and applicability of evidence.
- Use valid and applicable evidence to make well-informed health care decisions."
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