How to Use this Web Site

• What's the Big Idea?
• Icons and Symbols
• How to Use the Evidence
• How to Add to or Comment

What's the Big Idea?

Well, there are number of ideas, some big, some medium-sized, and we'd like you to let us know if you think they're good ones:

1. to create an electronic publishing forum for items of evidence so you can get your hands on them quickly;
2. to make this a dynamic, interactive resource so that readers can become contributors and get the credit for their good work;
3. to use this interactivity to keep the material relevant and-up-to date;
4. to maintain a system of quality control so that the evidence contained herein can be used with confidence; and
5. to run this system efficiently and close the publishing loop from months to days.

As is customary with the WWW, new stuff is coming online all the time, and changes are the site is regularly updated.

Icons and symbols

In general, icons with the Oxford skyline take you to parts of the site which are outside the EBM Toolbox, while those with a dark red background link to parts of the Toolbox. Here is a full list of the icons we use:

 

	click here to get back to the CEBM home page.
	clicking here will take you to this page.
	this one takes you to the section about teaching (courses and materials).
	click this icon to go straight to the section about CATs.
	use this icon to make a comment about our stuff or submit some of your own material for publication on these pages.
	this is for information about the book, How to Practice and Teach Evidence-Based Medicine.
	this links to the Glossary of EBM terms.
	this links to the EBM Toolbox Contents Page.

How to Use the Evidence

1. Look up the references!
2. This information is for integration with, not substitution for, your clinical expertise and personal knowledge, so don't blindly apply this stuff or blame bad outcomes on it.
3. Learn to recognise the icons and symbols used here.