Evidence-Based Medicine


Background Literature

Tutorials

Navigating the Maze from the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library

Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorials from the University of Massachusetts 

Introduction to EBM from University of North Carolina and Duke University

Evidence Based Medicine Information tutorial from Thomas Jefferson University

Tool Kits

CEBM - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine EBM Tools from the Oxford Centre 

Center for EBM from Mt Sinai Hospital University of Toronto

EBM Resources from SUNY Downstate Medical Center

EBM Toolkit from the American Academy of Family Physicians

Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit from the University of Alberta  

Netting the Evidence Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Net from the University of Sheffield


EBM Reviews, Digests, Synthesized Literature

Licensed Resources


BMJ Clinical Evidence - a monthly, updated directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, published by the BMJ Publishing Group. It provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions and summarizes the best available evidence.  

Cochrane Databases from Wiley contains full text of Cochrane Systematic Reviews, as well as data from Clinical Trails, Technology Assessment, Economic Evaluations and Methods Studies, and DARE, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness.

Free Resources


Cochrane Collaboration site provides free, unrestricted access to the abstracts of Systematic Reviews and offers individual subscriptions to the full database. 

DARE (Database of Reviews of Effectiveness) is an evidence-based full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. It is produced by the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England.

National Guideline Clearinghouse makes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials widely available to health care professionals. NGC is operated by the U.S.Dept. of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).
 
SUMSearch from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center is a single gateway that  searches Merck Manual, MEDLINE for review articles, editorials, and original research, National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), and Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE).
 
Bandolier E-Journal - Evidence based thinking about health care  

Trip Database (Turning Research into Practice), hosted by the Centre for Research Support in Wales, is a meta-search engine that searches over 55 sites including Cochrane, DARE, GP Notebook Textbook, e-journals, and practice guidelines.