1. Secure demographic
2. Obtain background info
3. Determin and catogarize ultimate question
4. Develop strategy and search
5. Evaluate, analyze & synthesize
6. Formulate and provide response
7. Follow up (if necesary)
8. Document

• Pubmed
• CINAHL
• EMBASE
• IPA

• Authorship
• Attribution
• Currency
• Disclosure

• Authority: Author & qualifications
• Complementary: descibe purpose of website (not to replace a MD)
• Confidentiality: Private policy page, describe how treat confidential info
• Attribution: Dates made, update, source of info/bibliography
• Justifiability: Balanced info, support claims
• Transparency of authorship: Contact E-mail, human response within 2 weeks (10 business days)
• Transparency of sponsorship: Disclose source of funding
• Honesty in advertising and editorial policy: Clearly mark advertisements

Temporal relationship: Treatment before effect

Power: Larger effect more likely to be causal

Consistency: always happens

Clinical plausability: makes sense

Specificity: few confounding variables

Dose-response effect: big dose big effect