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Theory and Practice of Evidence-based Medicine

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2022-2023

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-BOT-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 25

Available as Campus course for 10 fő számára. Campus-karok: ETK GYTK

Topic

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) offers practical tools to solve the practical problems arising in clinical settings as well as in outpatient care. This course is aimed not only to summarise the basic knowledge of EBM, but to provide practical examples of the usefulness of EBM as well. Formulating of clinical questions, literature search strategies as well as critical appraisal of papers revealed by the search is discussed in detail.

Lectures

  • 1. Definition of evidence-based medicine. The role of evidence in medical praxis - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 2. Study designs. Hierarchy of evidence - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 3. Observational studies - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 4. Interventional studies. Randomised controlled trials - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 5. Planning and conducting a clinical trial - based on own experiences - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 6. How to search for scientific literature efficiently? - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 7. Systematic literature searching - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 8. Summarizing data. Meta-analysis - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 9. Critical appraisal of scientific literature - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 10. The international Cochrane collaboration and Cochrane in Hungary - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 11. Guideline development process - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 12. Role of guidelines in everyday clinical praxis - Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

The teaching material will be made available for the students (handout).

Notes

Recommended literature

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The Cochrane Collabortation. http://handbook.cochrane.org/

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum of 25 % absence allowed

Mid-term exams

The readiness of students to apply methods of evidence-based medicine in practical settings will be evaluated during the course.

Making up for missed classes

Missing not more than three hours may be amended by studying at home and answering specific questions of the tutor.

Exam topics/questions

Exam topics are based on lectures.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk