How to find the evidence - the basics:
Short course designed for health professionals to provide an
overview of the information resources available to locate research
evidence and the process of translating a clinical question into an
effective search strategy.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/reswce/reswce3.htm
Evidence-Based Medicine:
Collection of resources and techniques by the University of
Hertfordshire.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm.htm
The Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy:
Compilation of resources, techniques and links put together by the
University College London.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/openlearning/uebpp/uebpp.htm
Bandolier Home Page:
Journal on evidence-based health care with online edition.
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
Effective Health Care bulletins:
A bi-monthly bulletin which examines the effectiveness of a variety
of health care interventions. Based on systematic review. Full text
available online.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ehcb.htm
Effectiveness Matters:
A bulletin providing updates on the effectiveness of health
interventions. Subscribe to the paper version(free) or view the full
text published articles online.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/em.htm
Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales:
Collection of evidence based information on prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of a number of common serious health problems.
http://hebw.uwcm.ac.uk/
Lothian Evidence-based Mental Health:
Part of the University of Edinburgh and Lothian Primary Healthcare
Trust. Provides tools for assessing evidence and some critical
appraisal topics.
http://www.pst.ed.ac.uk/evidence/
Netting The Evidence:
A ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research) introduction to
Evidence Based Practice on the internet. Support and access to
helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an
evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/
Oxford Pain Internet Site:
Systematic reviews of pain management. Excellent knowledge base and
examples of evidence based medicine.
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/painpag/
Cochrane Collaboration:
Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic
reviews of the effects of health care. General information, help for
newcomers and guidelines, manuals and software.
http://www.cochrane.org/
Update Software:
Electronic publishing and software development in health care, with
the emphasis on Evidence Based Medicine and Cochrane productions.
http://www.update-software.com/
The Cochrane Library:
Online version of this big and current collection of reviews and
meta-analyses in Healthcare. The Cochrane Library is available on a
subscription basis.
http://www.update-software.com/cochrane/
UNC Critically Appraised Topics:
University of North Carolina Medical School assembled this
collection.
http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/edursrc/!catlist.htm
URMC - Critically Appraised Topics:
University of Rochester Medical Center presents its collection of
short summaries of the evidence to focused clinical questions (CATs).
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/medicine/res/CATS/
Health Information Research Unit - Evidence-Based Health Informatics:
HIRU at McMaster University conducts research in the field of health
information science and is dedicated to the generation of new
knowledge about the nature of health and clinical information
problems, the development of new information resources to support
evidence-based health care, and the evaluation of various
innovations in overcoming health care information problems.
http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/
UM Evidence-Based Pediatrics:
From the University of Michigan with critically appraised topics,
information on learning EBM and links.
http://www.med.umich.edu/pediatrics/ebm/
InfoPOEMs:
Delivers daily Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters (DailyPOEMs)
by email and produces the InfoRetriever database system of filtered,
synopsized, evidence-based information next to a regular print
newsletter "Evidence-Based Practice".
http://www.infopoems.com/
An Introduction to Information Mastery:
From the Michigan State University. Basic concepts of Information
Mastery, Evidence-Based Medicine, and critical appraisal of the
medical literature.
http://www.poems.msu.edu/InfoMastery/
Golden Hour - Medical Information center:
Israel based tool for Evidence Based Medicine information retrieval.
Free medical databases; medical software; consulting services and
more.
http://www.goldenhour.co.il/
ACP Journal Club:
Evidence Based Medicine for better patient care from the American
College of Physicians. Limited access. Members of the ACP and
subscribers have full access.
http://www.acpjc.org/
