[JC Series] Episode 1: Feeling the Heat at Journal Club
Today begins our first episode in our Journal Club Series.
It's impossible to keep up wit hall the literature coming out - over 75 articles, 11 systematic reviews/meta analyses PER DAY.
We're here to help
How to keep up? It's impossible by yourself. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a team sport. We use:
- Curator services
- Targeted literature searches
- Journal club
We LOVE JC because:
- It helps us to keep up with the latest data in Pulm/CCM
- Junior clinical staff learn better critical appraisal skills from attendings and senior clinical staff
- We're able to discuss and decide how to incorporate data into clinical practice
Critical Appraisal
- Basically trashing an article
- Breaking down key components of data, methods, results, & conclusions
- Deciding what information needs to be incorporated into practice
- A difficult skill that needs to be practiced
PICO or Foreground questions (population, intervention, control, outcome). What we'll be focusing on in this series
- Therapy - Does an intervention have a meaningful effect on patient outcomes
- Harm - very similar to therapy - does a particular variable/disease/intervention cause harm in a given patient population
- Diagnosis /differential diagnosis - does a particular piece of subjective/objective data have value in diagnosing or ruling out a condition
Stay tuned!