Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Learn how to interpret medical literature to make guided patient care decisions

On this course, you will learn how to apply the key principles of evidence-based medicine in practice.

You will explore the basic applications of p-values, power and statistical tests that are typically found in medical literature. You will discover how to interpret number-needed-to-treat, number-needed-to-harm and noninferiority studies through medical literature examples.

You will also understand and review the pros and cons of clinical practice guidelines and decipher the appropriate application of these guidelines in practice.

This course is for professionals or students looking to build their clinical pharmacokinetic knowledge. You might be an undergraduate pharmacy student, a postgraduate pharmacy student or a pharmacist in clinical practice.

• Introduction of Statistical Errors and Common Statistical Tests
• Welcome to this course
• Statistical Application
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• Measures of Association: Interpretation of NNT & NNH
• The appropriate use of number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH) in clinical trials
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• The Facts of Non-Inferiority(NI) Trials
• The Appropriate Formulation of Non-Inferiority Trials
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• The Application of Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Strategies of using Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• Process of Evaluating Clinical Studies : PICO
• PICO Evidence-Based Practice
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• Logical thinking: Evidence Based Medicine Application
• Applying EBM to clinical settings
• Reflection and Assessment of the week
• Assessment time