Critically appraised topics.

Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics (CCCATS) Library

The Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics is a website that provides updates in relevant and controversial critical care topics using an evidence-based approach. In reviewing this site we browsed through the online offerings and assessed the information provided as well as the user interface. Each critically appraised topic (CAT) is structured so that the following information is i...

Quantitative evaluation of recall and precision of CAT Crawler, a search engine specialized on retrieval of Critically Appraised Topics

BACKGROUND Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) are a useful tool that helps physicians to make clinical decisions as the healthcare moves towards the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). The fast growing World Wide Web has provided a place for physicians to share their appraised topics online, but an increasing amount of time is needed to find a particular topic within such a rich reposito...

Global Health IM Residency Tract – Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) Project 2013 Global Health Critically Appraised Topic: Treatment of Stroke in CT-Poor Settings

Stroke remains on top 5 causes of mortality in the world with a higher incidence and higher mortality in developing countries. Standard stroke care in the US and Europe consists of fast presentation to healthcare & frequently specialty stroke centers, diagnosis using neuroimaging and clinical scales, and acute treatment based on stroke sub-type with anti-platelets, thrombolytics, antihypertensi...

Teaching and Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in a Hospital Unit With Secondary Vocational Trained Nurses: Lessons Learned.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) was systematically implemented using the implementation model by Grol et al. Barriers and facilitators for change were diagnostically analyzed. Implementation strategies were directed at the barriers. The two main implementation interventions were (a) a tailored interactive outreach training course about EBP and (b) a patient case discussion based on EBP principles...

Evidence Based Practice Critically Appraised Topic