Evaluate
Evaluating your performance
The final step of the evidence-based approach is self-evaluation. In their Evidence-based Medicine textbook (ref 1). Sackett et al suggest a number of self-evaluation questions for each stage of the evidence-based approach. A few examples are shown below:
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius (circa 551-479 BC)
Question
- Am I asking any clinical questions?
- Are they well structured?
Finding
- Am I searching for evidence?
- Do I know what the best sources are?
- Am I getting better at it?
- Am I finding evidence?
Appraisal
- Am I critically appraising evidence?
- Am I getting better at it?
Act
- Am I using evidence I find and appraising it in my practice?
References
- Sharon Straus Paul Glasziou W. Scott Richardson R. Brian Haynes. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. 5th Edition. Elsevier 2018.