Guides @ UF: Urology Resources: Point of Care & EBM

Finding the Evidence Video Series

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Point of Care Information Resources

When you need to find information quickly at the point-of-care, here are some resources to help!

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians consult when making point-of-care decisions. An editorial team condenses the most recent medical information into evidence-based recommendations to improve patient care and quality.
Courtesy of the College of Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education

PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed Clinical Queries provides access to specialized PubMed searches designed to quickly connect clinicians with evidence-based clinical literature. There are two EBM search options for clinical studies or systematic reviews.

While you are on rounds, you might want to consider having those resources on hand as mobile resources or apps.

UpToDate App
UpToDate, a clinical support tool available through UF, offers an app to provide better evidence-based clinical diagnosis tools. You will need to create an UpToDate account from within the web application (while connected to the VPN or on a campus computer), and use it to log in to the app. After logging in to the app the first time, the UpToDate app will remain logged in to your account for easier access in the future.
PubMed for Handhelds
This application features multiple ways to search PubMed/MEDLINE: PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome); askMEDLINE, a free-text, natural language search; and Consensus Abstracts. Apple iOS app includes these options as well as BabelMeSH which has search options in 13 languages.
Micromedex Apps
Micromedex offers Drug Interactions and IV Compatibility apps for Apple and Android devices. These apps are free to UF users--to set up the app, follow the instructions on the link or by clicking on the Download Center tab in the upper right corner of the screen on the web version of the database. You will need to be on the UF network or logged into the VPN on your computer to access the set up instructions.

For other apps and mobile webpages related to clinical care, please visit our Mobile Resources for Health libguide: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/mobilehealth

Precision vs Recall

Precision = the fraction of retrieved items that are relevant

(How much of what you retrieved is good?)

# relevant articles

# total articles

Recall = fraction of relevant items retrieved out of all relevant items available in the database

(How much of the good stuff did you actually get. Unfortunately, the higher the recall, the more 'junk' you end up getting also.)

# relevant articles retrieved

# of total relevant articles available

When searching, you're looking for a reasonable balance between precision (narrowing your search to get ONLY relevant articles) and recall (widening it to get ALL relevant articles, which usually means a lot more junk to weed through as well).

A common question is "How many articles should be retrieved by a good search?" There's no exact answer to that. Somewhere between 100-300 is a reasonable number of abstracts to weed through, but it depends greatly on your question, how comprehensive you want to be, and how much literature there truly is on your topic.