1. Title of presentation By Presenter Greet the audience, introduce yourself and the topic of the presentation

2. Aims and Objectives The aim is what you want to achieve eg to determine if one therapy is better than another. The objectives are how to achieve the aim. There is typically one aim and two or three objectives. Also include your personal aims and objectives eg to improve EBP skills, to learn how to critically appraise an RCT, SR, to use CATmaker, etc.

3. Case presentation Provide a brief case presentation, which typically identifies the case that gave rise to the question being presented or why this question / topic is of particular interest to you.

4. The Clinical Question Provide a clear and concise clinical question and identify the PICO terms.

5. Literature search Provide details of the key terms used in the literature search and identify the resources used eg Cochrane, PubMed, etc. Provide details of the results of the search eg 4 systematic reviews were found in PubMed.

6. Guidelines Provide details of NICE, RCOG and BWH Guidelines (where available). Identify issues of concern eg guidelines might be unclear, outdated and / or unspecific to answer the question being presented.

7. Paper selected Provide bibliographic details of the paper selected and state why this paper was chosen eg the most relevant paper, up to date, adequate participant numbers, good methodology, etc.

8. Flow chart of the study Provide a simple flow chart of the study. Describe the study to the audience to help get a feel of the content and understand the methods used, etc.

9. Details of the study Copy and paste useful charts or tables from the study paper, and explain their significance to the audience. This might need 2 or 3 slides.

10. GATE frame Apply the study to the GATE Frame and explain the steps to the audience. The GATE Frame template slide is below.

11. GATE Frame Outcome Intervention Comparison Intervention Comparison Participants Source population Interventioncontrol Eligible population Participants

12. RAMMbo List the RAMMbo acronym stating if the study adhered to each part: (see example JC presentation for more help with RAMMbo)  Representative  Allocation  Maintenance  Measurements blinded objective

13. Copy and paste the evidence pages from Catmaker and explain the clinical measures to the audience. See page 90 of Paul Glasziou’s workbook to help you interpret the clinical measures.

14. Summary and Conclusion Summarise the findings and provide a conclusion, stating how well the aims and objectives were achieved. The findings may prompt change of policy at BWH. When insufficient evidence is found recommend audit or further research. Thank the audience for listening and ask for questions.