Best EBM methods or teaching papers in 2004 (February 3, 2005).

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Paul Glasziou compiled a list for the best EBM papers in 2004. These papers had to deal with either methods for EBM or teaching of EBM. Here is the list:

• Arri Coomarasamy, Khalid S Khan. What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence-based medicine changes anything? A systematic review. BMJ 2004;329:1017 bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7473/1017
• John Gabbay, Andrée le May evidence-based guidelines or collectively constructed "mindlines?" Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care BMJ 2004;329:1013. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7473/1013
• Sharon E Straus, Michael L Green, Douglas S Bell, Robert Badgett, Dave Davis, Martha Gerrity, Eduardo Ortiz, Terrence M Shaneyfelt, Chad Whelan, Rajesh Mangrulkar, the Society of General Internal Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force Evaluating the teaching of evidence-based medicine: conceptual framework BMJ 2004;329:1029-1032. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7473/1029
• Victor M Montori, Nancy L Wilczynski, Douglas Morgan, R Brian Haynes, for the Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ 2005;330:68. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7482/68
• Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB, the Hedges Team. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound prognostic studies in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. BMC Medicine 2004, 2:23 (9 June 2004) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/2/23
• Peter C. Wyer, Sheri Keitz, Rose Hatala, Robert Hayward, Alexandra Barratt, Victor Montori, Eric Wooltorton, and Gordon Guyatt *Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine introduction to the series* Can. Med. Assoc. J., Aug 2004; 171 347 - 348 http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/171/4/347
• McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Medicine 2004, 2:33 (6 September 2004) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/2/33
• Katrak P, Bialocerkowski AE, Massy-Westropp N, Kumar S, Grimmer KA BMC Med Res Methodol. 2004 Sep 16;4(1):22. A systematic review of the content of critical appraisal tools. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/4/22
• Maher CG, Sherrington C, Elkins M, et al. Challenges for evidence-based physical therapy accessing and interpreting high-quality evidence on therapy. Phys Ther. 2004;84644-654. http://www.ptjournal.org/PTJournal/Jul2004/v84n7p644.cfm
• Philips Z et al. Review of guidelines for good practice in decision-analytic modelling in health technology assessment. Health Tech Assess 2004;8(36). http://www.ncchta.org/project.asp?PjtId=1342

which was published on the evidence-based Health email discussion group. He offered thanks to Sue Lacey Bryant, Jon Brassey, Douglas Badenoch, Robert Grant, Reinhard Wentz, and Andrew Booth for suggestions.