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Evidence Based Medicine Links
In Introduction to Information Mastery - Excellent introduction and background to EBM simplified in regular English.
ACP PIER - PIER (Physician Information & Education Resource) is developed by the American College of Physicians are evidence-based guides for clinical care.
Best Evidence Online Journal - Gives text and abstracts of recent articles with regards to EBM. A few Power Point presentations for download
Center for Policy Studies in FP and PC in DC - Excellent resource with “one pagers” and abstracts of articles with special significance to the practice of family medicine. Also has a section for monographs and books, data tables and recent presentations (PDF).
ClinicalTrials.gov - Gives listings of all current clinical trials being performed, listed by disease. Gives purpose of the study, inclusion criteria, etc. and contact info.
Clinical Evidence - Gives important EB clinical information about different topics. Requires subscription.
The Cochrane Library - contains the full text of Cochrane systematic reviews, abstracts to DARE (Database of Reviews of Effect) and a clinical trials database.
Cochrane Abstracts - Excellent literature review to make conclusions about the quality of studies, to date. Needs to open new window.
Dynamed - With clinical-organized summaries for nearly 3,000 topics, DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - Excellent resource with literature reviews, online databases and even an “information and enquiry” service
EBM and Guidelines at HealthLinks (Washington) - Great site for learning (reinforcing) knowledge of statistics in EBM. Has online calculators for many stats problems (e.g. Levels of Evidence, Pre-test Probability, Likelihood Ratios, Numbers Needed to Treat, ect)
Evidence Based Health Care (Oxford) - “Bandolier” online literature reviews written by students at Oxford.
InfoRetriever - Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters - Interesting resource that will send POEMs daily via email and allow you to search POEMs, but is only by subscription (and expensive).
National Guidelines Clearinghouse(AHCPR) - Excellent resource that gives information on evidence based treatment guidelines of just about every illness. You can search, or browse by Treatment/Intervention or Disease/Condition. This essentially gives us the “standard of care” for most illnesses.
The TRIP Database - Allows readers to “rapidly and easily identify high quality medical research from a variety of sources.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine - Info on Learning/Doing/Teaching EBM. Also has a “toolbox” with statistical calculators.
EBM Toolkit - This is a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making (based on research from JAMA)
Evidence Based Practice - Document based guide to finding and interpreting good research based articles
EBM resources - Lots of links to publications, databases, websites, etc. on EBM
ATTRACT - presents short and concise evidence-based answers to clinical questions. (Based on UK structure of evaluating EBM)
Department of Family Medicine
University of South Alabama College of Medicine
1504 Springhill Ave, Room 3414
Mobile, AL 36604
(251) 434-3480 • Fax (251) 434-3495
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