Table of Contents
3.1 Exploring the Structure of a Medical Research Article
3.2 What Differentiates Primary and Secondary Literature?
3.3 Distinguishing Levels of Evidence
3.4 What Are Proprietary Literature, Open Access Literature, and OER?
3.1 Exploring the Structure of a Medical Research Article
3.2 What Differentiates Primary and Secondary Literature?
Primary and Secondary literature play important roles in Evidence Based Medicine.
3.2 Activity: Match the Citation to Primary or Secondary Literature
3.4 What are Proprietary Literature, Open Access Literature and OER?
Module 3 Synopsis
There are many ways to think about types of literature. Articles can be primary (research) or secondary (systematic reviews of other literature.) They can be open access or pay to read. These types are important to keep in mind as we search for the best available evidence.
