Guided Notes

Evidence-Based Practice & Information Retrieval

PICO questions, searching PubMed/MEDLINE with MeSH, the evidence hierarchy, appraising studies, point-of-care resources and how informatics delivers evidence into workflows.

Evidence-based practice

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Evidence-based practice combines: • the best available research evidence, • clinical expertise, • patient values and preferences. Informatics makes evidence findable and usable at the right moment — through search tools, summaries, order sets and decision support.