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Evidence-Based Practice Tools

This page with its set of links is designed for clinicians who want to incorporate the best available evidence-based resources with their own personal skills and expertise.

The ultimate result hoped for is in the improvement for the care of their patient.

(get started by clicking on the specific area of interest listed directly below)

  • Key EBM Resource Tools [click here and learn how to use these key EBM tools]

    • Evidence Based Medicine Reviews - Cochrane Database (in full text) via Ovid
    This is the full text of the Cochrane Library of Evidence Based Medicine Reviews. Fully searchable, it provides evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. When not on the Samaritan network, a username and password is required and obtainable from any library staff member.

    ACP PIER & AHFS DI Essentials - 2009 --- STAT!Ref
    ACP PIER is a collection of over 400 evidence summaries published by the American College of Physicians. Topics selected by ACP for this Point-of-Care Tool are based upon prevalance in clinical settings.

    PubMed
    Search from over 18 million citations in the life sciences back to 1948. Choose the Clinical Queries option in the blue column on the left-hand side to use these special comprehensive search strategies:
    Clinical Study Categories | Systematic Reviews

    Another option is the Clinical Guidelines subset under the Limits Tab found near the top of the PubMed page.


  • EBM Basics

    • EBM Glossary
    Bandolier provides links to definitions for the jargon words often used in medicine and the numbers and statistics used to describe it. The glossary includes terms used in epidemiology, in clinical trials, in diagnosis, in statistics, and in health economics.

    Statistical Terms in EBM
    New York Online Access to Health has provided a list of resources and sites that link to information helping you understand statistical terms in EBM.

    Tools for Each Step of the EBM Process
    The Centre for Evidence-based Medicine has created a five-step approach to EBM starting from asking focused questions to evaluating the performance of the evidence.


  • Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)

    • ACP Journal Club 1998 - present --- STAT!Ref
    Comprises the cumulative electronic contents of ACP Journal Club's bimonthly print edition with recurrent weeding of out-of-date articles. The content is carefully selected from over 100 clinical journals through reliable application of explicit criteria for scientific merit, followed by assessment of relevance to medical practice by clinical specialists.

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Practice Resources
    These have been created to inform and develop coverage decisions, quality measures, educational materials and tools, and guidelines in clinical decision-making.

    Bandolier
    Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies through PubMed and the Cochrane Library searches in addition to large epidemiological studies.

    Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
    Established in Oxford England whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.

    Cochrane Reviews
    Published on a quarterly basis it consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases providing high quality information to people who provide and receive care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. Search abstracts of Cochrane Systematic Reviews free-of-charge.

    Core Library for Evidence Based Practice
    Links to full-text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice.

    Decisional Analysis and Statistics
    Find information on over 45 tests and performance measures utilized in clinical medicine that all including references; some with tables.

    Dr. Chris Cates' EBM Web Site "new"
    This site is an attempt to share some of Dr. Cates' experiences that he has gained as a GP in Hertfordshire and a reviewer with the Cochrane Collaboration.

    Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center
    The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter has developed an Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center. The web site contains references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to guide those embarking on teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine.

    Evidence-Based Practice Resources
    Here you will find a well-maintained and frequently updated list from McMaster University health Sciences Library, Ontario, Canada.

    Evidence-Based On-Call
    This database is designed for hospital clinicians who want to integrate the best available evidence with their own personal skills and expertise to improve the care of their patients. Each topic covered in Evidence-based On Call provides a series of recommendations about issues to consider when caring for your patients.

    Netting the Evidence
    Intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources on the Internet, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.

  • Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

    • BestBETs
    BestBETs provides evidence-based answers to very specific clinical problems, using the best available evidence.

    SUMSearch
    SUMSearch is a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet. SUMSearch combines meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence.

    TRIP : Turning Research Into Practice Database
    The TRIP Database searches over 55 sites of high-quality medical information providing hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from peer-reviewed journals and 'other' publications.

  • Medical Outcomes, Practice Guidelines, Research, Standards, Etc

    • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Practice Guidelines
    Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research developed statements and recommendations to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical conditions.

    Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry - Topics Based
    The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, established in 1995, is an independent body whose aim is to promote the teaching, learning, practice and evaluation of evidence-based dentistry world-wide. Navigate the site by using the buttons near the top of the page.

    Clinical Evidence "new"
    Here is one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care.

    National Comprehensive Cancer Network Practice Guidelines in Oncology by Cancer Site
    These guidelines, developed as algorithms, encompass 95% of the tumors encountered in oncology practices. Each individual guideline is posted with its latest update date and version number. Free registration required.

    National Guideline Clearinghouse
    Produced in collaboration by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research(AHCPR), American Medical Association (AMA) and American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).

    New Zealand Guideline Group
    Promotes effective delivery of health and disability services all based on evidence-based medicine.

    OTseeker "new"
    From the University of Queensland (Australia), the OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions. Use the Tabs at the top to navigate the site.

    Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
    UCSF School of Medicine presents a searchable listing of on-line guidelines grouped by clinical content with index.

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