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Evidence Based Medicine

This page provides information on locating and evaluating literature used to support evidence based practice.

EBM Help Sheet

Risk / Therapy Videos

Videos cover: event risk, relative risk, relative risk reduction vs. absolute risk reduction, and how to calculate risk in a therapy study.

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Introduction to Risk (4:44 mins.)

Relative Risk (5:27 mins)

Relative Risk Reduction vs. Absolute Risk Reduction (4:35 mins)

How to calculate risk in a therapy study (5:46 mins)

Diagnosis Videos

Videos cover: pre-test probability, test & treatment thresholds, diagnositc measures, sensitivity and specificity, likelihood ratios, nomograms, and positive & negative predictive values.

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Introduction to Diagnosis (2:58 mins)

Pre-test probability / Test & treatment thresholds (4:19 mins)

Introduction to Diagnostic Measures (1:48 mins)

Sensitivity & Specificity (5:07 mins)

Likelihood Ratios (4:31 mins)

Nomograms (3:51 mins)

Positive and Negative Predictive Values - PPV & NPV (2:52 mins)

Prognosis Videos

Videos cover: absolute & relative survival, survival curves, and survival curves comparing two or more groups

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Introduction to Prognosis (4:44 mins)

Absolute & Relative Survival (2:32 mins)

Survival Curves (4:35 mins)

Outcome measures used when comparing survival curves (3:42)