SLO 10: Research and responsible data use
The outcome
Assess evidence critically, contribute to research and handle clinical information responsibly.
What this means in practice
Discuss a paper’s methods and results, then explain whether it should change care for your patients.
Use the diagnostic-testing exercise and journal clubs to examine evidence and explain how it affects a clinical decision.
Start here
Choose a starting point to suit what you need to work on.
Diagnostic testing: decide before you request
Work through test accuracy and probability before judging a diagnostic strategy.
Journal club: LoDED and safe early discharge
Appraise LoDED and decide what its findings would mean for local chest-pain care.
Journal club: HALT-IT and treatment transfer
Appraise HALT-IT’s methods, benefits and harms before applying its results.
More learning for this SLO
Learn
Ep 255 – Likelihood Ratios: Critical Appraisal Nugget 12
Review likelihood ratios before appraising a diagnostic test.
Ep 91 – Critical Appraisal Nugget 7: Relative risk, Absolute risk and NNT in 5 minutes
Review absolute and relative treatment effects before the HALT-IT appraisal.
Ep 167 – Troponin Update and LoDED Study Review with Rick Body
Compare an investigator’s interpretation of LoDED with your appraisal of the study.
Teaching programmes
Early-career Emergency Medicine
1 relevant session in this programme.
Higher Training and Advanced Discussion
2 relevant sessions in this programme.
Apply it in practice
Choose one thing to try on your next suitable shift, within your role and level of supervision. Discuss what happened and what you would change.
More mapped resources
Browse 77 more mapped St Emlyn’s resources
77 tagged resources
JC: Critical care reviews meeting day 1 #CCR20. St Emlyn's
JC: The 65 trial. Targeting MAP in sepsis. St Emlyn's at #CCR20
JC: Journal club book for 2019-2020 published. #FOAMed
JC: Pulmonary Embolism – The PEGeD study
Top 10 trauma papers 2017-2018 for @traumacareUK conference. St Emlyn's
Journal Club – Trauma CT in Paediatric Patients
Top 10+1 trauma papers 2016-17. St.Emlyn's
JC: UK traumatic cardiac arrest stats. St.Emlyn's
