Medico-legal research

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Contents

Article

Introduction

  • What Is EBM?
  • Definition of EBM
  • Why EBM is the accepted trend
  • The intersection between law and EBM
  • What legal researchers need to know

Medical literature

  • Crafting a clinical question: PICO
  • Searching the medical literature: MeSH
  • Selecting the best studies: meta-analyses & systematic reviews
  • Appraising the best studies
  • Applying the results to the patient

How to Do a MEDLINE Search

  • Selecting resources for the Law Library
  • Monographs and serials
  • Electronic databases
  • MEDLINE and related databases
  • Cochrane collaboration and the Cochrane Library
  • Embase
  • CINAHL
  • PsycINFO
  • Web of Science

Reference tools

  • Dictionaries
  • Textbooks
  • Drug and toxicology tools
  • Web sites
  • Evaluating web sites
Personal tools