Websites & Journals
- NHS centre for reviews and dissemination
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination was established in January 1994 to provide the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of health care.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
The TRIP Database created in 1997 in an attempt to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the internet
Effectiveness Matters Effectiveness Matters provides updates on the effectiveness of important health interventions for practitioners and decision makers in the NHS. It covers topics in a short and journalistic style, summarising the results of high-quality systematic reviews
The Centre for Health Evidence uses innovation, instruction, and investigation to help health professionals put their best knowledge to work.
PRODIGY "Providing access to clinical knowledge about the common conditions and symptoms managed in primary care."
Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit - Collection of EBM methods
ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
The purpose of MAAG is to support General Practices, Primary Health Care Teams and PCTs in Oxfordshire with work to improve quality of primary care services - in particular focussing on clinical audit and making best use of clinical computer systems to support clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice
EQUIP Education and quality in primary care across North Essex
Journals
- Bandolier - evidence based journal with treatment reviews providing a valuable resource for guideline development
- Clinical Evidence Online - summaries of latest research evidence from BMJ Publishing
- Collected BMJ Articles - articles archive catalogued by specialty
- Evidence Based Medicine
- http://www.evidence.org BMJ Website for clinical evidence (free via the NHS Net)
- Search PubMed
- BMJ updates
Articles
- Clinical problem solving and diagnostic decision making: selective review of the cognitive literature - from BMJ
- Ethics and evidence based medicine - Ian Kerridge et al's 1998 BMJ paper
- Getting Evidence into Practice - NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination summary report (1999)
- How to read a paper - the basics of evidence-based medicine - BMJ textbook - excellent introduction
- How to Use an Article about a Diagnostic Test - JAMA article
- How to Use an Article about Harm - JAMA article
- How to Use an Article about Prognosis - JAMA article
- Ingenta - research publications gateway - over 11,000,000 articles indexed from 26,000+ publications (includes non-medical subject areas)
- Meta-analysis - Principles and procedures - BMJ article
- Qualitative research and evidence based medicine - BMJ article expressing validity of qualitative research
- Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice - set of guides originally published in JAMA
- What is a NNT? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What is a QUALY? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What is a systematic review? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What is clincial governance? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What is critical appraisal? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What is evidence based medicine? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- What makes a good clinical guideline? - article from www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk [PDF]
- Read Tricia Greenhalgh's critique "Intuition and EBM, uneasy bedfellows"
- See the BMJ Christmas expose of EBM!