Irma and I conducted the second research forum this weekend, focusing on how to appraise evidence in research articles. We briefly went through the EBP history and PICO questions and searching, but the focus was on appraising/evaluating the articles.  I think it went well, but I did a lot of the talking.

Afterwards, one of the comments that made me think a lot was “you don’t know what it is, or what you need to know until you do it”. I believe this is true, and I am going to create a virtual research study as a way to ease people into the process. This will not be a “real” study, but it will have the steps and some of the decisions, and (hopefully) will de-mystify the process.  Granted, with my current schedule, this may take until January to make it onto the Web…but it will be here.

If you are intrigued and want to help, send/post suggestions for the topic or design or issues you have encountered (or are afraid of) and I’ll see if I can address those ideas in the study.  Thanks in advance!