his is a recording of the Cochrane Canada Webinar with Michelle Fiander, information specialist with the Cochrane Effective Practice & Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group, on locating and understanding quality health care information and scientific evidence to inform health care decisions.
Where do consumers look for their health care questions? What sources provide reliable information? This session explains how to identify high quality health care information and provides tips to identify reliable sources of evidence-based information.
After using this resource, you should be able to…
- Understand the information context of consumers and health care practitioners
- Locate and understand health care information to inform your decisions as consumers
- Recognize different types and sources of health information
- Appreciate how Cochrane systematic reviews reduce the noise around us in a jungle of information