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Evidence Based Medicine: Help Sheets & Videos

This page provides information on locating and evaluating literature used to support evidence based practice.

EBM Help Sheet

Risk / Therapy Videos

Videos cover: event risk, relative risk, relative risk reduction vs. absolute risk reduction, and how to calculate risk in a therapy study.

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Intro to risk in medical studies (3:55 mins.)

Relative Risk (4:46 mins)

Relative Risk Reduction (RRR) vs. Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) (3:43 mins)

Determining risk in a therapy study (4:45 mins)

Diagnosis Videos

Videos cover: pre-test probability, test & treatment thresholds, diagnositc measures, sensitivity and specificity, likelihood ratios, nomograms, and positive & negative predictive values.

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Intro to Diagnosis (2:45 mins)

Pre-test probability / Test & treatment thresholds (4:08 mins)

Diagnostic Test Measures (1:30 mins)

Sensitivity & Specificity (4:55 mins)

Likelihood Ratios (LR+ & LR-) (4:24 mins)

Positive & Negative Predictive Values (PPV & NPV) (2:26 mins)

Nomograms in diagnosis (3:36 mins)

Prognosis Videos

Videos cover: absolute & relative survival, survival curves, and survival curves comparing two or more groups

Are you an educator? These videos can also be found in the Canvas Commons -- allowing faculty to easily import them into a course.  Search: EBM Videos

Introduction to Prognosis (4:32 mins)

Absolute & Relative Prognostic Values (2:32 mins)

Survival Curves in Prognosis (4:36 mins)

Survival curves comparing two or more groups (3:42)