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General Information

 

ScHARR
Netting the evidence--a COMPLETE list of evidence based practice on the Internet.

 

Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
What is Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM); how to teach and practice EBM; EBM toolbox.

Center for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Contains a detailed collection of tools to help you develop your skills in practicing evidence-based health care.

Journal Club on the Web
Online discussion of clinical articles.


InfoPOEMs. Inc.--Bringing Evidence to the Point of Care
Evidence-based practice newsletter; Journal of Family Practice; information mastery web-based course.

HealthWeb--Evidence-Based Health Care
Links to high quality web sites.


 

Critical Appraisal                                            back to top       back to learning modules

Critical Appraisal Topics (Oxford University)

Include an introduction to critical appraisal topics (CAT), the CAT bank -- a collection of CATs and NNTs, and the CAT maker, a software tool downloadable which helps you create CAT.

 

How to Evaluate the Evidence from the Wisdom Project

Include appraisal of original research, appraisal of reviews, banks of appraised articles, evaluating web sites, worked examples, and user's guide to the medical literature.

 

Southwestern Ontario Regional Academic Health Science Network Critical Appraisal Page

Critically appraised papers in therapy, diagnosis, harm, and prognosis are posted. Each paper includes analyses on these area: Are the results of the study valid? What were the results? Will the results help me in caring for my patients? Results and bottom line.

University of North Carolina Critical Appraisal Page

Index of critical appraisal topics sheet by subject. Each sheet includes clinical scenario, background, clinical bottom line, design, results, conclusion, and comments. 

Examples of Critical Appraisal Worksheets from ScHARR under the heading of Critical Appraisal Worksheets.


 

 

Evidence-Based Health Care Tutorials                                    back to top

 

On-line Medical Dictionary

 

Clinical Epidemiology Definitions

Answer questions such as what is a cohort-study, what is a case-control study, how to calculate odd ratio and number needed to treat...

 

Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
Include general science terminology, general terms for epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, terminology specific to epidemiology, clinical study design and methods terminology, experimental design and statistical terms.

 

Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
Terminology on clinical trials, epidemiology, bias, evidence-based medicine, and statistics. Include graphics to explain certain  terms such as randomized controlled trial, cohort study, and case-control study. Also include formulas to calculate terms such as NNT, ARR, OR, etc.

 

Medical Statistics from the Wisdom Project

PowerPoint presentation of (i) why medical students should understand statistics and, (ii) how to display and summarize quantitative data.

 

Table of Likelihood Ratios (University of North Carolina) 

How to calculate and use likelihood ratios, search for likelihood ratios by disease, search for likelihood ratios by test.

 

Clinical Calculator

On-line calculator to calculate clinically significant measure: Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR), Relative Risk Reduction (RRR%), Odds Ratio (OR), Number Needed to Treat (NNT).


Medical University of South Carolina

Full text books and journals on Evidence-based medicine.

 

 




Discipline-Specific EBHC                                                         back to top

 

Nursing

 

Center for Evidence-Based Nursing (UK)

 

Evidence-Based Nursing (0nline Journal)

 

Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery (The Joanna Briggs Institute)

 

Nurse Prescribing (National Prescribing Center, UK)

 

Pediatrics

 

Pediatric Evidence-Based Health Care (University of Washington)

 

Center for Evidence-Based Child Health (UK)

 

Dentistry

 

Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry (UK)

 

Mental Health

 

Electronic Library for Mental Health

 

Center for Evidence-Based Mental Health (UK)

 

Evidence-Based Mental Health

 

Pharmacy

 

Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy

 

Evidence-Based Information on Drug Therapy 

 

Other Disciplines

 

The Physiotherapy Evidence Database 

 

Evidence-Based Pathology

 

MD Digest

 

Occupational Therapy--Evidence-Based Practice

 

Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine

 

 




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