A practical guide for the use of research information to improve the quality of occupational health practice

Overview

The guide aims at developing skills in:

• asking relevant questions that originate from professional practice
• reformulating questions from practice in such a way that it results in the capability of looking for an answer in scientific or evidence-based information sources, for example recently updated manuals, guidelines, journal articles or high quality websites.
• performing a focussed search on Internet in the Medline database using the PubMed search engine
• globally appraising the value of scientific articles found with regard to reliability and relevance to the question asked
• formulating an answer to the question, based on the information found, and applying this in practice.
• presenting the result to colleagues, for example in the context of a clinical audit or journal club.