Development and pilot testing of a tool to assess evidence-based practice skills among French general practitioners.

Background: There is currently an absence of valid and relevant instruments to evaluate how Evidence-based Practice (EBP) training improves, beyond knowledge, physicians' skills. Our aim was to develop and test a tool to assess physicians' EBP skills.

Methods: The tool we developed includes four parts to assess the necessary skills for applying EBP steps: clinical question formulation; literature search; critical appraisal of literature; synthesis and decision making.

Reuse of termino-ontological resources and text corpora for building a multilingual domain ontology: an application to Alzheimer's disease.

Ontologies are useful tools for sharing and exchanging knowledge. However ontology construction is complex and often time consuming. In this paper, we present a method for building a bilingual domain ontology from textual and termino-ontological resources intended for semantic annotation and information retrieval of textual documents.

[PubMed 2009. How to work with the new "advanced search" interface].

PubMed/MEDLINE has recently changed the interface of its search function, especially the new web page called "Advanced Search", which combines on one page many of the functionalities and search options previous located at several different access points. We present here a tutorial to help French-speaking users work with this new interface.

[MEDLINE and PubMed 2006. Presentation and instructions for use].

The aim of this paper is to provide a practical kit in French for bibliographic retrieval using MEDLINE on PubMed new version, a World Wide Web retrieval service. We explain screen by screen how this bibliographic research tool works and try to make it easy to use to every single French-speaking end-user.

[Free access to full text. How to work with PubMed Central].

Direct and free online access to relevant scientific information and full text papers is the daily concern of researchers, whatever their "documentary environment", even more so if it is not easy. The PubMed Central (PMC) data base is one of the solutions offered to those who work in the field of Health and Life sciences. This short teachware presented here is a practical help, in French, designed to show how to use PMC for bibliographic retrieval and free full text access.

[How to search National Library of Medicine databases. NLM Gateway: [presentation and method of use (update: May 15, 2002)].

The aim of this paper is to provide a practical kit in French for bibliographic retrieval using NLM Gateway, a Web-based retrieval service that lets users search simultaneously in multiple National Library of Medicine databases and information resources. We try to explain screen by screen, how this bibliographic retrieval tool works and try to make it easy to use to every single French-speaking end-user.