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Journal club template

Prepare a journal club in one page: enter the PubMed ID to fill in the citation, then work through the question, methods, results and appraisal. Print it as a handout, print it as slides, or copy it as text.

You write the content from the paper; this page does not summarise it for you. Your notes stay in this browser. Only the PubMed ID is sent, to PubMed, when you click Fill in.

The paper

1.The question (PICO)

PopulationIntervention or exposureComparisonOutcomes

2.How they did it

Study designSize and follow-up

3.What they found

Main resultSecondary results and harms

4.Can we trust it?

Risk of biasStrengthsLimitationsFunding and conflicts of interest

5.Does it change what we do?

Applicability to our patientsBottom lineQuestions for discussion

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