Links to Evidence-Based Medicine
Bandolier
An independent journal about evidence-based healthcare. Pubmed and the Cochrane
databases are scanned for interesting and coherent articles that are than summarized
and published in the Bandolier with addition comments and brief recommendation.
Best Bets
BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary,
UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions,
using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account
the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the
best of what there is. Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus,
there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary
care, and pediatrics.
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
This Web site is designed to serve as a practical guide to health care providers,
planners and consumers for determining the inclusion or exclusion, content
and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions, using the
evidence-based recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health
Care (CTFPHC)*.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Oxford
Contains established levels of evidence as well as explanation of evidence-based
medicine and searching tips.
Centre for Health Evidence
The Centre for Health Evidence (CHE) is a multi-disciplinary initiative that
brings universities, health organizations, and professional associations together.
CHE supports the learning, teaching, and practice of evidence-based health
care.
Evidence Base on Call
In this evidence compendia, you will find evidence-based summaries of 38 on-call
medical conditions. Every recommendation links via a plus icon + to a short
summary of the evidence which in turn link to one-page summaries (called CATs)
of every article used via a cat icon.
Evidence Based Decision Making
Web site containing links to the following evidence based site categories:
Evidence based resources, Journal clubs, Health service resources, EB guidelines
and pathways, and many others.
Evidence Based Medicine Resource Center
The Web Page contains references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and
on-line databases to guide those embarking on teaching and practicing evidence-based
medicine. It offers practice tools to support critical analysis of the literature
and MEDLINE searching, as well as links to other sites that help enable evidence-based
medical care.
Evidence-based Medicine Journal
Co-published by the American College of Physicians and the British Medical
Journal. The site contains full text summaries from all issues as well as six
related sources. Also contains links to other evidence-based journals and resources.
Evidence-based Practice Centers
Agency for Health Research and Quality provides 5 year contracts to institutions
in the US and Canada to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC). The
EPCs review all relevant literature on a variety of scientific topics as well
as monitor the methodologies of current research. This site contains links
to the EPCs as well as a long list of other EB sources.
NHS Learning and Development: Sources of Evidence
The following is a guide to some of the publications, databases, web resources
and organizations that may be useful in helping you to locate evidence-based
health care information, compiled by librarians in the Health Libraries and
Information Network (HeLIN) in the Oxford Deanery of the South East Region
and CASP. This guide is not an attempt at a comprehensive list, but does hopefully
point towards the main sources of evidence that exist in this area.
The Cochrane Library
An international network of individuals committed to "preparing, maintaining
and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health
care". The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply
high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those
responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
It contains the following databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, The Cochrane Controlled
Trials Register, and The Cochrane Review Methodology Database.
Universities with Evidence-Based Medicine Resources
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in January
1994, and aims to provide research-based information about the effects of interventions
used in health and social care.
The University of Alberta Library
A broad overview of resources for evidence-based practice. Resources include:
finding books and reports, key textbooks and manuals, finding journals articles,
evidence-based practice journals, evidence-based practice Web sites, sources
for systematic reviews, meta-analysis, clinical practice guidelines, and resources
for critically appraising health care literature.
Evidence-based Tool Kit
Contains a set of tools (questions and worksheets) that will help the user
analyze all different types of research articles. Contains links (http://www.cche.net/che/home.asp)
to peer reviewed journals that focus on analyzing evidence-based medicine.
McMaster University
Based at McMaster University this site contains a large amount of evidence-based
healthcare information and related links.
ScHARR Netting the Evidence
Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by
providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources,
such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.
The Ottawa Hospital
This site focuses on evidence based health care and has resources for the
following areas: Clinical trials and systematic reviews, Cochrane Collaboration,
Critical appraisal, Education resources, Guidelines, Health specialties, and
Health technology assessment.
The University of Sheffield: Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness
and Knowledge
The Trent Research Information Access Gateway
TRIAGE is the Trent Research and Development Support Unit's gateway to hundreds
of Web sites containing teaching tools, tutorials, articles, and other educational
materials relating to health research. This site is not intended to provide
links to resources on specific medical topics, only on broad subject areas.
University of Hertfordshire
Excellent summary of the current available resources relating to evidence-based
medicine. Resources include: Definitions, references, protocol and reviews
in BMJ JAMA and the Lancet, journals, databases, evidence-based health Web
resources, clinical guidelines, and much more. Contains many links to unique
evidence-based medicine Web sites.
University of Rochester
Site contains a solid list of organizations, guides and tutorials, tools and
search filters, systematic reviews, critically appraised topics, journals,
and practice guidelines.
