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MDM/PPS Library Resources

This guide will help you learn how to find information for a clinical or patient care problem.

This guide is designed to help you to learn how to formulate clinical questions in the PICO format, and to create  searches in online medical databases. Once you understand some basic concepts and language, you'll find the Zen of clinical information. 

This guide has links to evidence-based information resources and databases to help you answer clinical questions.

Good luck on the path of knowledge + effort + time = success!

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