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Fundamental tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses.

Core Topics in Evidence-Based Medicine

	Learn how to recognize, classify, and prioritize important patient or policy problems.
	Construct clinical questions that facilitate an efficient search for evidence.
	Gather important and convincing evidence from high-quality repositories of the health literature.
	Systematically check best available evidence for indications of validity, importance, and usefulness.
	Interpret the applicability of evidence to specific problems, given patient preferences and values.

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Ascites

A 48-year-old man became intoxicated and fell down several steps. He presents to the emergency... Continue reading

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	Users' Guides to the Medical Literature A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition		The Rational Clinical Examination Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis
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JAMA Vol 304, No 4, July 28, 2010