How to read a systematic review and meta-analysis and apply the results to patient care: users' guides to the medical literature

…, T Agoritsas, R Hatala, MO Meade, P Wyer… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
… A low P value of the test means that random error is an unlikely explanation for the differences
in results from study to study, thus decreasing confidence in a single summary estimate. …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic)

T McGinn, PC Wyer, TB Newman, S Keitz, R Leipzig - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/171/11/1369/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat

A Barratt, PC Wyer, R Hatala, T McGinn, AL Dans… - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/171/4/353/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

Users' guides to the medical literature: XXII: how to use articles about clinical decision rules

TG McGinn, GH Guyatt, PC Wyer, CD Naylor, IG Stiell… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Clinical experience provides clinicians with an intuitive sense of which findings on history,
physical examination, and investigation are critical in making an accurate diagnosis, or an …

Knowledge translation: closing the evidence-to-practice gap

ES Lang, PC Wyer, RB Haynes - Annals of emergency medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Knowledge translation describes any activity or process that facilitates the transfer of high-quality
evidence from research into effective changes in health policy, clinical practice, or …

[HTML][HTML] Narrative evidence based medicine

R Charon, P Wyer - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
James McNeill Whistler, Sea and Rain: Variations in Violet and Green (1865) knowable and
the unknowable), the universal and the particular, and the body and the self. Nested, these …

Preventive care in the emergency department, part II: clinical preventive services—an emergency medicine evidence‐based review

CB Irvin, PC Wyer, LW Gerson… - Academic …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) provide an opportunity to initiate preventive
services for millions of Americans who have no other source for these services. Objectives: To …

[HTML][HTML] Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 4. Assessing heterogeneity of primary studies in systematic reviews and whether to combine their results

R Hatala, S Keitz, P Wyer, G Guyatt - Cmaj, 2005 - Can Med Assoc
See the “Tips for teachers” version of this article online at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/172/5/661/DC1.
It contains the exercises found in this article in fill-in-theblank format, …

Antiseptic impregnated endotracheal tubes for the prevention of bacterial colonization

V Pacheco-Fowler, T Gaonkar, PC Wyer… - Journal of Hospital …, 2004 - Elsevier
… cfu/tube for the control ETTs (P<0.001). Subcultures from proximal and distal ends of the agar
tract showed minimal or no growth in the antiseptic ETTs compared with the control ETTs (P

Small business development and the “learning organisation”

P Wyer, J Mason, N Theodorakopoulos - International Journal of …, 2000 - emerald.com
… developing foundations of a model depicting the small business strategic learning process
which we diagrammatically represent as the left hand side component of Figure 1 (see Wyer