Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice

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The "Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice" are derived from pre-publication working papers of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. They retain this provisional status, may be updated without notice, and may be extensively enhanced or altered from the first version submitted to the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. The "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature" are the formal product of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, published through the Journal of the American Medical Association. The published "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature" are not the same as the online "Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice."

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