Evidence Based Practice Resources

Oxford University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

The home of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) was established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the world whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. There is a wealth of information and links to other EBM resources.

Oxford University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Tutorial

This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine. (Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Tutorial

Databases

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, considered one of the premier sources of EBM, is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality, reliable evidence about the effects of health care. The Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews can be searched and are available without charge.

Full text of reviews - available to affiliated users

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)

DARE contains summaries and assessments of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of health care interventions published in the journal literature that meet the Cochrane standards. Dare summaries are also available through the Cochrane Library, to affiliated users.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

The Central Register is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials. It includes published articles taken from the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases, and other published and unpublished sources. Does not contain full-text.

Bandolier (Oxford)

An online, monthly journal containing bullet points of evidence-based medicine, which can be searched by subject. Links to Bandolier's history and evidence on specific health topics are available.

Top 20 Evidence Based Sources on the Web (from University of British Columbia)

Critically Appraised Topics

Critically appraised topics (CATs) are short summaries of the evidence on various clinical questions or topics. The Critically Appraised Papers (CAPs) posted here are derived from the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) User Guides from McMaster. (Southwestern Ontario Regional Academic Health Science Network)

The University of North Carolina presents an alphabetical list of clinical research topics, each with a review of strengths and weaknesses.

CAT Crawler is a meta-search engine for CATbanks

Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics

American Thoracic Society - Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics

Turning Research into Practice - TRIP

The TRIP Database provides direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web, searching over 75 sites of high-quality medical information. Multiple resources can be searched simultaneously. Text is available.

PubMed Clinical Queries

Clinical queries are separately built-in search "filters" – for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis – intended for clinicians, which provide a means to retrieve quality information using PubMed's MEDLINE database. (National Library of Medicine)

Guidelines

HSTAT -- Health Services Technology Assessment

A searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information. Multiple resources can be searched simultaneously or separately. Includes US Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines and National Guideline Clearinghouse.

National Guideline Clearinghouse

A comprehensive, public resource database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.

Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines

Introduction to an evidence-based medicine approach to using guidelines for the primary care provider. Includes a searchable listing of on-line guidelines grouped by clinical content with index, top diagnoses cross reference, and organization site listings.

Guidelines Finder (National Electronic Library for Health)

The Guidelines Finder provides an index to clinical guidelines and currently holds details of over 800
United Kingdom national guidelines with links to Internet downloadable versions of the guidelines. It is
updated on a weekly basis.

CMA Infobase

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) produced or endorsed in Canada. (Canadian Medical Association)

Tools

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature Bibliography

This website includes links for all the JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. (Centres for Health Evidence)

The Wisdom Centre

Offers a basic introduction to EBM, informatics and non-statistical analyses of clinical scenarios. (University of Sheffield)

EBM Toolkit

A collection of tools (worksheets, search strategies, glossaries) for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. (University of Alberta)

Core Library for Evidence Based Practice

This Virtual Library brings together links to full text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice: Covering topics such as What is EBM? Users' Guides, Systematic Reviews, getting research into Practice.

Master Lists of EBM Resources

Netting the Evidence

An introduction to Evidence Based Practice and a descriptive directory of organizations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. (University of Sheffield)

Center for Evidence Based Practice

Department of Family Medicine, Upstate Medical University.

HealthWeb: Evidence Based Health Care

A collaborative project of the 20+ health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region "Linking You to the Best in Health Information." (University of Illinois at Chicago)

MedWeb

A catalog of health related web sites to access biomedical information to improve education, research and patient care. (Emory University, Health Sciences Center Library)

Medical Library Association

Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet. Links to Master lists of resources, "how to" sites, organizations, and guidelines.

Clinical Trials

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service

Listing of government and industry sponsored clinical trials and new drug therapies approved by the FDA. Designed to be a resource both for patients and research professionals.

ClinicalTrials.gov

Provides patients, family members, and members of the public current information about clinical research studies. (US NIH)

Emory Center for Outcomes Research (ECOR)

ECOR supports research in basic science, epidemiology, clinical trials and outcomes research to contribute to the evolution of EBM. It serves as the data coordinating center for many clinical trials in cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics, and has specific expertise in the evaluation of quality of life, economic and cost-effectiveness endpoints.

Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality

The Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality is one of the nation's largest health care research groups formed to measure and evaluate the quality of health. Established in 2001, the center combines leading academic researchers at Emory with a team of experienced hands-on researchers formerly with Aetna.

Specialty Web Sites - Mental Health

Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health

Promotes and supports the teaching and practice of evidence based mental healthcare. Searchable database covering diagnosis, therapy, living with the disease and consumer reading list.

National Electronic Library for Mental Health Database

Patient search mode - Available for users who wish simple answers to their questions - free from technical medical terms.

Professional search mode - Recommended for those users who are comfortable with clinical terminology and more sophisticated search functions. (under development)

National Institute of Mental Health

Specialty Web Sites - Nursing

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Nursing (University of Texas)

The purpose of the Center is to advance evidence-based nursing practice, research, and education within an interdisciplinary context. The goal is to turn research into action, improving health care and patient outcomes in the community, through evidence-based practice, research, and education.

Evidence-based Nursing (University of Minnesota)

The website includes models of evidence-based nursing, a link to current projects, information on evaluating the quality of nursing research, links to research-based nursing journals, and assistance with teaching evidence-based nursing.

Specialty Web Sites - Pediatrics

University of Michigan's Evidence-Based Pediatrics

This page serves as a resource for our residents and faculty who are developing skills in the practice of evidence-based pediatrics.

Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statements

AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Specialty Web Sites - Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy

Evidence in Motion

OTseeker

OTseeker provides rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in occupational therapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not. OTseeker was created by a team of occupational therapists from two Australian Universities, and receives support from the developersof PEDro at the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy in Sydney Australia.

PEDro -- The Physiotherapy Evidence Database

PEDro provides rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not. PEDro was developed by clinicians and academic physiotherapists in Sydney, Australia.

Rehab Trials.org

(Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corp.)
Rehab Trials conducts rehabilitation research to help improve health and wellness for people with physical disabilities, musculoskeletal and neurological conditions.

Evidence Based Practice of Physical Therapy

(created by Dennis Fell, MD, PT & Judy Burnham, MLS at the University of South Alabama )
How to use the Internet to support evidence based physical therapy practice.