Evidence Based Medicine
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- Cochrane Collaboration
- International not-for-profit organisation preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care. General information, access to the Cochrane Library, guidelines, manuals and software.
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- BETs: Best Evidence Topics
- A searchable database of evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, with details of courses and teaching material. Developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom.
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- California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF)
- A California public service forum conducting evidence-based reviews of new and emerging medical technologies; CTAF reviews across a broad spectrum of medical topics are available as downloadable PDFs.
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- Evicom Limited
- Provides evidence generation, evaluation and communication to support health care professionals in their evidence-based decision-making. Commercial service.
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- EvidenceUpdates
- Searchable best evidence database, plus tailored email alert service, from the British Medical Journal and McMaster University. Free subscription required.
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- General Practice Notebook: Evidence-Based Medicine
- The principles and applications are explained, with examples provided for different specialties.
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- Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd
- Commercial service providing preparation of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, rapid reviews, and health technology assessments.
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- NHS Evidence Search
- Search engine from NHS Evidence for health and social care professionals, providing access to evidence-based health information to assist in delivering quality patient care. Includes a Specialist Collections, along with periodic Annual Evidence Updates issued by topic area.
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- Progress in Evidence-Based Medicine
- Assessment of where we stand in evidence-based medicine as of 2008.
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- Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club Podcast
- The Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club podcast provides an excellent way to keep up with the medical literature, improve patient care, and increase understanding of evidence-based medicine.
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- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Provides workshops, resources and background information for healthcare professionals, with research tools and educational material to download. Based at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford.
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- Critical Appraisal
- Learn to read clinical papers with confidence with courses on critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine
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- Development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs): comparing approaches
- Critical review of six clinical practice guidelines development handbooks.
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- Evidence Based Medicine Information
- A tutorial on basic concepts, including a guide to searching literature and databases. From Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA.
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- Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
- Slide presentation given to second year medical students on the principles of evidence-based medcine. From the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). [pdf]
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- Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
- A five minute tutorial, with inbuilt self-assessment, from the Boston University Medical Library.
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- KT Clearinghouse: Center for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Features tutorials on practising and teaching this method of critical appraisal, with glossary of terms and self-evaluation questionnaire. Form the Department of Medicine at Toronto General Hospital, Canada.
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- Meta-analyses: what they can and cannot do
- Critical examination of the pros and caveats about meta-analysis, and how the limitations can be overcome; also includes a illustrative case vignette. From CEB, the Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. [2012]