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- BestBETS
- BETs (Best Evidence Topics) were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to clinical questions. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence and the practical constraints on searching for evidence-based answers in a busy clinical setting.
- Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health
- Established by the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
- Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital - University Health Network
- Resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.This site also serves as a support for Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, now in its third edition.
- Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health (CEBMH)
- Contains the journal Evidence-Based Mental Health, links to practice guidelines, and a very useful set of tutorials on finding and evaluating methodologically sound mental health research applicable to clinical practice.
- Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy
- At University of Sydney, Australia. Includes access to PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database.
- Evidence Based Emergency Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine
- The EBEM working group is an established project of the Emergency Medicine Section of the New York Academy of
Medicine.
- Evidence-Based Psychiatry Center
- Evidence-Based Psychiatry Center, Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. Includes searchable pre-appraised evidence covering a range of diagnoses and calculators for everyday evidence-based practice.
- Therapeutics Initiative
- Evidence-based information for rational drug therapy from the University of British Columbia
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| Organizations, Associations, and Agencies | | |
- ACP Guidelines
- From American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. Evidence-based guidelines developed using the CEAP (Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project) process
- American Dental Association: Evidence-Based Dentistry
- Includes definition plus links to relevant articles from the ADA News and the Journal of the American Dental Association, to selected systematic reviews on oral health topics, and to the ADA Policy on Evidence-Based Dentistry.
- American Psychiatric Association, Practice Guidelines
- Cancer Care Ontario:
Quality Guidelines and Standards
- These projects develop and maintain evidence-based care information for patients, families, and health care providers, including clinical practice guidelines and evidence summaries.
- Cochrane Collaboration
- International organization that promotes well-informed decisions about
health care by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions
- Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery
- International Research Collaboration based in Adelaide with collaborating centres focusing on nursing, midwifery, allied health, and multi-professional practice
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
- Includes systematic reviews on selected topics, searchable databases, Cochrane Library User Group and training materials
- Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
- SIGN's evidence-based guidelines are based on a systematic review and critical appraisal of current scientific literature and graded according to the strength of the supporting evidence. Member organizations represent "all the medical specialties, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, professions allied to medicine, patients, health service managers, social services, and researchers."
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- CMA Infobase, Canadian Medical Association
- Clinical practice guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel
- CRD Databases, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
- Includes Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), a database of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions; NHS Economic Evaluation Database, a database of structured abstracts of economic evaluations of health care interventions; and the Health Technology Assessment Database
- OTSeeker
- Developed by occupational therapists from two Australian universities, OTSeeker is a searchable database containing citations (and some abstracts) of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated for validity and interpretability.
- PEDro
- The Physiotherapy Evidence Database, from the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
- SUMSearch
- Searches multiple resources (textbook, guidelines, PubMed) simultaneously for medical evidence
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| Multimedia Resources |
| | - EBM Calculator v1.2
- Designed to calculate relevant statistics for
diagnostic studies, prospective studies, case control studies and randomized control trials (RCT). It is a Palm version of the Stats Calculator. Offered by Mount Sinai Hospital - University Health Network.
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| Teaching and Learning | | |
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- Asking Focused Clinical Questions
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK
- Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
- Varied, useful site that pulls together searchable databases, glossaries, and resources for teaching and for clinical practice. See the Publications section for both a bibliography of frequently-cited items and a regularly-updated list of recent articles.
- Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorial
- Clear, easy-to-read primer from Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Evidence-Based Medicine: What it is and what it isn't
- By David L. Sackett, William M.C. Rosenberg, J.A. Muir Gray, R. Brian Haynes, and W. Scott Richardson. Based on a January 13, 1996 editorial from the British Medicine Journal (BMJ 1996; 312: 71-2)
- The EBM Toolbox
- This Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine collection includes generic resources (Glossary of EBM Terms, Comparison of Study Designs) plus definitions, calculations, and examples for statistical measures used in evidence-based evaluation.
- Understanding Evidence-Based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action
- United States Cochrane Center. This web course, a project with the Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE),is designed to help consumer advocates understand the fundamentals of evidence-based healthcare concepts and skills.
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