{"id":879,"date":"2014-03-05T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/?p=879"},"modified":"2014-03-05T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:03:12","slug":"basics-top-5-tips-for-evidence-based-paeds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2014\/03\/05\/basics-top-5-tips-for-evidence-based-paeds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics: Top 5 tips for evidence based paeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of my office next door neighbours SoMe course we’re off with a ‘Top Tips’ post. (Anyone who hates the cheesy format can comment below or tweet us @ADC_BMJ.)
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Please imagine a racing, 5-years-before-you’re-reading-this-pop-tune as your background music.
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1. Know your question<\/strong>
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Know what you’re asking. And know why you’re asking it. And know what you think the answer is, before you start looking.
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2. Use sensible searches to crack high-quality resources<\/strong>
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Don’t waste your life doing a systematic review that might well already have been done, appraised and packaged for you.
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3. Appraise things using checklists to help you.<\/strong>
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They help. They don’t command and control. And they are a Checklist, they are not The Inviolable Truth.
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4. Decide what you think the answer actually is.<\/strong>
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Do this on the basis of your appraisal. Now check back to what you thought the answer was (#1).
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5a. If you’ve decided to do something – do it.<\/strong>
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(N\/A)
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5b. If you’ve decided not to do something – think.<\/strong>
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Are you actively not doing something? Or just not doing because you don’t believe the answer from #4? If so – how great would the evidence have had to be to press you from what you thought the answer was? Just how ‘anchored’ are you to your initial beliefs?
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