Evidence-Based Medicine Resources
• Databases • Guidelines • Clinical Trials • Tutorials
• Critical Appraisal • Specialty Web Sites • Glossaries
Databases
- The Cochrane Library [USC]
- The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane systematic reviews represent the
highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to
Cochrane reviews, the Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts,
technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.
- Essential Evidence Plus [USC]
- Available for the web and mobile devices,
Essential Evidence Plus features InfoPOEMS, Cochrane abstracts,
practice guidelines, and decision support calculators. More Info
- Evidence Updates [Free]
- Evidence Updates, a collaboration between BMJ Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit, offers an email alerting system and a searchable database of articles that are pre-screened for quality and given a clinical relevancy rating.
- PubMed Clinical Queries [Free]
- Clinical Queries offers MEDLINE search filters for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis studies. There is also a filter for locating systematic reviews.
- SUM Search 2 [Free]
- From the University of Kansas - Simultaneously searches MEDLINE, DARE, the National Guideline Clearinghouse, and other resources.
- Trip Database [Free]
- A meta-search engine of many EBM resources, including the Cochrane Library, e-journals, practice guidelines,
e-textbooks, and PubMed.
Guidelines
- National Guideline Clearinghouse [Free]
- From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- ACP-ASIM Clinical Practice Guidelines [Free]
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials.gov [Free]
- National Institutes of Health database of clinical research studies.
- Clinical Trials LibGuide [Free]
Tutorials
- Evidence-Based Medicine Resources Tutorial [Free]
- A self-paced tutorial developed by the USC School of Medicine Library.
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine [Free]
- A self-paced tutorial developed by the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Evidence Based Medicine Course [Free]
- A self-paced tutorial from SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Critical Appraisal
- Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit [Free]
- A Collection of critical appraisal tools from the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group.
Specialty Web Sites
- OT Seeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence) [Free]
- Created by Occupational Therapists in Australia. This database contains citations and abstracts for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews. Randomized controlled trials are rated for quality.
- PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) [Free]
- From the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy in Sydney, Australia. This database contains citations and abstracts for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews. Randomized controlled trials are rated for quality.
Glossaries
- Glossary of EBM Terms [Free]
- From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Toronto.
- Glossary of Terms [Free]
- From the New York Academy of Medicine.
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