Evidence Based Medicine

First Choice Resources - Resources to use in sequence for many clinical questions

National Guideline Clearinghouse*** - EBM practice guidelines
Cochrane*** - Systematic reviews of literature on specific subjects
PubMed - Clinical Queries*** - Evidence Based filters for Medline
Essential Evidence Plus (formerly called InfoPOEMs)*** - Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters
DynaMed ** - Point-of-care resource to support clinical decision-making
ACP Journal Club***- Articles reporting original studies & systematic reviews
TRIP -CeRes*** - British meta-search engine; covers 58 resources
HSTAT - Health Services/Technology Assessment Text, full-text guidelines

Meta-Search Engines

Systematic Reviews and Guidelines

Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Practice Guidelines
CDC Recommends: Prevention Guidelines - Searchable store house of documents
CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines - Web browsable with extensive cross links.
Cochrane*** - Systematic reviews of literature on specific subjects
EPPI - Evidence for Policy and Practice, Health Promotion Databases
Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center - Clinical Practice Guidelines
Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center Projects **- Systematic reviews of the evidence addressing the questions and synthesis
MD Consult - Generic Edition, Continue, Current Practice, Guidelines
National Guideline Clearinghouse*** - EBM practice guidelines
National Institute for Clinical Excellence - UK Clinical Guidelines
National Institutes of Health - Health Information
Organizational Guidelines - HealthWeb, University of Illinois
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines - University of California, SF
PubMed - Clinical Queries*** - Evidence Based filters for Medline
Society of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Prediction Rules

Critically Appraised Topics

ACP Journal Club***- Articles reporting original studies & systematic reviews
Bandolier - Reviewed literature, offers subjects by medical speciality
HealthWeb - Greater Midwest Region/National Network of Libraries of Medicine/Committee for Institutional Cooperation
Prime Answers - Portal from University of Washington
University of Michigan Department of Pediatrics - Pediatrics EBM
University of North Carolina - Index of CAT Sheets by Subject

Clinical Trials

CenterWatch** - Clinical Trials Listing Service
Clinical Trials** - NLM's database of Clinical Research Studies, includes non-NIH studies
Cochrane Central of Register of Controlled Trials
Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center Clinical Trials - NY Acad of Medicine and the American College of Physicians, NY Chapter
PDQ** - Clinical Trials on Cancer, plus other cancer related information

Databases ( Not Necessarily Evidence-Based)

MD Consult - Practice guidelines, clinical topics
EMBASE.com - Excerpta Medica indexes over 3,500 international biomedical and pharmaceutical journals
MICROMEDEX - summaries for drugs, diseases and more. PDA
UpToDate*** - Topic reviews on specific clinical issues

CDC STD Treatment Guidelines - for viewing on a Palm OS device, with bookmarks and hyperlinks to facilitate browsing.
DynaMed - 1,800+ clinical topic summaries
FIRSTConsult Handheld** - Diagnostic tables for over 350 complaints
InfoRetriever & InfoPOEMs - Evidence filtered for relevance
mobile MICROMEDEX** - Drug information and interation
eProcrates- Drug interactions, alternative medicine and pricing information
Hopkins Antibiotic Guide *** - Search by diagnosis, pathogen and antibiotic
MedCalc - via CollectiveMed, complete medical calculator
PICOmaker - Lets users create and store queries, U of Alberta
Other resources
- Avantgo - Hosts server based applications, such as PubMed
- Clinical Pharmacology - Drugs, nutritional products & PIER
- JHM ACC Avantgo - Office of Academic Computing's Avantgo
- JHM ACC PDA Resource List - Sofware Library
- POCKET Consult - (must register for FREE Personal Account)
- PubMed Channel Information - Wireless access to Clinical Queries
- Other Sites and Resources - List of good resources to search

Statistical Tools, Tools and Calculators

Bayesian Calculator - Plus other clinical formulas such as Likelihood Ratio, Sensitivity and Specificity
EBM and Descision Tools by Alan Schwartz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit - University of Alberta
MedCalc - via CollectiveMed, complete medical calculator
PICOmaker - Lets users create and store queries, University of Alberta

Journal Clubs, List Servers, and Metalists

Discussion Lists* - A list of discussion groups on various evidence related topics
Lock's Guide** - Identifies material less likely to be in Cochrane or MEDLINE.
PedsCCM - Supporting Evidence-Based Practice in Critical Care
ScHARR*** - Most comprehensive up to date list of evidence on the web

Education and Tutorials

Centers for Health Evidence - Based on Users Guides to Evidence-based Medicine
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - How to's; part of EBM Toolbox
Core Library of Evidence-Based Practice - Full text on aspects of EB Practice
EBM Toolkits (Canada) - Based on the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group
Effective Clinical Practice - Online Tutorial
Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center - Resources for teaching and learning Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine:Tools, Techniques, and Results - Dr. Harold Lehmann's lecture (PowerPoint)
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine (Duke) - Tutorial from Duke University
NICHSR - National Information Center on Health Services Research
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - Search Strategies to Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL
School for Health And Related Research (ScHARR) - Systematic Reviews

Organizations and other resources

American Medical Informatics Association - dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care.
The CIHR Group ( Centre for Evidence Based Medicine) - Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Links to Other Web Sites including Non-English language EBHC sites
Centers for Health Evidence- Projects - Promotion of Evidence Based Health Care
EPPI Centre - The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU), Institute of Education, University of London.
Organising Medical Networked Information - British search engine for Internet resources in health and medicine.

Glossaries

Last Updated July 2006