A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ACP Journal Club
ACP Journal Club's general purpose is to select from the biomedical literature
those articles reporting studies and reviews that warrant immediate attention
by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal
medicine. These articles are summarized in "value added" abstracts
and commented on by clinical experts. A UK mirror site
exists at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc/jcmenu.htm
Arcus Statistical Package
This downloadable statistics package can be placed on a local machine and then
used to calculate odds ratios, relative risk and other clinical measures such
as Numbers Needed to Treat. It includes exact confidence intervals for all of
these which is very rare. The package also includes calculation of pooled odds
ratios using the Mantel-Haenszel or Woolf method. It is made available by Dr
Iain Buchan, formerly of the Departments of Medicine and Primary Care,
University of Liverpool. Arcus Biomedical for Windows is about to be launched.
Details of the beta site can be obtained from Iain Buchan, now at Institute of Public
Health, University of Cambridge. http://www.camcode.com
Aggressive Research
Intelligence Facility (ARIF)
"Advancing the use of evidence on the effects of health care in the West
Midlands": ARIF is a specialist unit of three people based at the
University of Birmingham, set up to help health care workers access and
interpret research evidence in response to particular problems. They are a
collaboration between the Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, the
Department of General Practice and the Health Services Management Centre at the
University and are funded for three years from 1st July 1995 by the Research and Development
Department of the NHS Executive, West Midlands. The first objective of ARIF
is to provide timely access to, and advice on, existing reviews of research. http://www.hsrc.org.uk/links/arif/arifhome.htm
Bandolier
Bandolier is a journal produced monthly by the Oxford Anglia NHS Region in the
UK. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine, hence its title.
Access to Bandolier on the Internet is free of charge, but it may run several
months behind the printed version. Subscription to the printed version of
Bandolier costs stlg30 per year (UK) and stlg60 overseas. http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk:80/Bandolier
Centre for Evidence Based Child
Health
The newly opened Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health is part of a national
network of centres for evidence-based health care. The overall aim of the
Centre is to increase the provision of effective and efficient child health
care through an educational programme for health professionals. Introductory
seminars, short courses, MSc modules, workshops for groups in the workplace and
training secondments are beng offered to paediatricians, nurses, general
practitioners, healthcare purchasers and others involved in child health. http://www.ich.bpmf.ac.uk/ebm/ebm.htm
Centre for Evidence Based
Dentistry
The main objective of the Centre, based at the Institute of Health Sciences in
Oxford is to promote the teaching, learning, practice, and evaluation of
Evidence-Based Dentistry throughout the United Kingdom. http://www.bhaoral.demon.co.uk/
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
The World Wide Web page of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, established
in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose aim broadly
is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to
anyone who wants to make use of them. The Centre's web site contains the EBM Toolbox with numerous
aids to the practice and teaching of EBHC, including: pre-test
probabilities, Likelihood
Ratios, SpPins and
SnNouts, Numbers Needed To
Treat and other measures of effectiveness for diagnostic tests, therapy and
prognosis; teaching
materials for public health, primary care, hospital medicine, child health,
neonatology, mental health, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology; a glossary of terms;
hints, tips and worksheets on asking clinical questions,
searching and
critical appraisal; slide presentations
on the background to EBM; and much more! http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/
Centre for Evidence-based
Mental Health
A rudimentary web site for the new Centre for Evidence-based Mental Health,
recently established in Oxford c/o John Geddes, Senior Clinical Research
Fellow, Centre for Evidence-based Mental Health Department of Psychiatry,
University of Oxford, OX3 7JX. Tel: +44 1865 226480, Fax +44 1865 793101 http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/cebmh.htm
Centre for Reviews and
Dissemination
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is a facility commissioned
by the NHS Research and Development Division to produce and disseminate reviews
concerning the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare
interventions. The aim is to identify and review the results of good quality
health research and to disseminate actively the findings to key decision makers
in the NHS and to consumers of health care services. In this way health care
professionals and managers can ensure their practice reflects the best
available research evidence. The reviews will cover: the effectiveness of care
for particular conditions; the effectiveness of health technologies; evidence
on efficient methods of organising and delivering particular types of health
care. The CRD has made its public databases accessible over the internet and
via dialup access. The first is a database of structured abstracts of good
quality systematic reviews (DARE) which comment on the methodological features
of published reviews and summarise the author's conclusions and any
implications for health practice. The abstracts represent the end product of a
detailed sifting and quality appraisal process. There is also an economic
evaluations database (NEED). The telnet address is nhscrd.york.ac.uk (the user
ID and Password are both crduser). http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Infobase
The clinical practice guidelines in this Canadian Medical Association
collection were produced or endorsed by a national, provincial or territorial
medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or
expert panel. This new product is being developed in three stages. During the
first stage, CMA is providing access to guidelines previously published in the
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ); the guidelines to which CMAJ does
not hold copyright are listed and the full text will be added when the
developers have granted permission. Other guidelines will be added as they
become available. http://www.cma.ca/cpgs/index.html
Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration (http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/COCHRANE/DEFAULT.HTM)
facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of systematic
overviews of the effects of health care. This is the home page for this
international Collaboration and provides access to information on all its
activities, to the Handbook (see next entry) as well as password- protected
access to the Reviews. Also see:
The Cochrane Collaboration has made available the titles and abstracts of its reviews together with the titles of all protocols for proposed reviews. These are available either through the Australasian Cochrane Centre - CDSR Review titles or through a Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews commercial site in Australia. Synapse Publications Inc make much of the Cochrane Library available on a subscription basis
CCEPP - Cochrane Collaboration on
Effective Professional Practice
Information about the group plus links to health-related sites and information
about discussion groups (including the use of economic evaluation in systematic
reviews).
Cochrane
Collaboration Handbook
The Cochrane Collaboration's handbook is its main working document and
currently has six parts. The first section of the Handbook describes the
background, aims and organisation of the Collaboration. The second, third and
fourth sections are for those considering establishing review groups, field
co-ordination or Cochrane centres; the fifth and sixth sections provide
practical guidance (and software) for developing and maintaining registers of RCTs
and Cochrane Reviews. http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane/handbook/default.htm
This Virtual Library has been put togetherby assembling links to full text
documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice. Further suggestions are
most welcome:
·
This is a list of
books, reports and journals suggested as a starting point for a library or
clinical audit/effectiveness unit. This list is aimed at British health
libraries and, therefore, necessarily, has a UK bias.http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/corelist
Critical Appraisal
Skills Programme
CASP is a UK project that aims to help health service decision makers develop
skills in the critical appraisal of evidence about effectiveness, in order to
promote the delivery of evidence-based health care. At the heart of CASP's work
is a cascade of half day workshops. These introduce participants to the key
skills needed to find and make sense of evidence to support health service
decisions. CASP introduces people to the ideas of evidence-based medicine and,
through critical appraisal of systematic reviews, also introduces people to the
related ideas of the Cochrane Collaboration.
http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/casp/home_page.html
Critically appraised topics (CATs) are short, typically one page, digests that
summarise the evidence for clinicians. A Canadian site can be found at Critically Appraised Topics - SORAHSN
while further details may be found at the Centre for Evidence Based
Medicinehttp://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/catbank.html
Development and Evaluation Committee
Reports
These reports have been prepared as part of the Development and Evaluation
Service funded by the Research and Development Directorate South and West. They
are intended to provide rapid, accurate and usable information on health
technology effectiveness to purchasers, clinicians, managers and researchers in
the South and West. An archive of the DEC Reports is also available at the Bristol site. http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dec/
EBM
Searching Tutorial
For those interested in searching skills in an Evidence Based Medicine
environment, this is an interactive tutorial guiding the user through steps in
query formulation and searching. http://jeffline.tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/informatics/activities/ebm_info.html
EBM Toolbox
Not to be confused with the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine's resource of
the same name, this is a Canadian based collection of resources to support EBM.
It includes appraisal checklists, methodological filters and other User
Guide-associated resources. http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/
Effectiveness Matters
Effectiveness Matters provides updates on the effectiveness of important health
interventions for practioners and decision makers in the NHS. Topics covered to
date include Aspirin and Myocardial Infarction, Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic
Ulcer, Influenza Vaccination and Older People and Screening for Prostate
Cancer. Screening for Prostate Cancer is accompanied by a patient information
leaflet Screening for Prostate Cancer: The Evidence. Information for Men
Considering or Asking for PSA tests. Effectiveness Matters is a free
publication available on subscription. To subscribe to Effectiveness Matters or
to order CRD Reports, contact CRD Publications (Tel.) 01904 433648. http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/dissem.htm#em
A number of sites look at the pharmacological implications of evidence based
practice. The following seem to be equivalent to the UK's Medicines Resource
Centre [no Internet address]:
Evidence based health (EBH) is the application of critical appraisal to
problems in health care. This list is for teachers and practitioners in health
related fields; to announce meetings and courses; stimulate discussion; air
controversies and aid the implementation of EBH. To subscribe send an e-mail
with the message join evidence-based-health
A number of sites have set up pages of links to Evidence Based Resources. These are good starting points for listings to update these pages.
Cambridge University Public Health http://fester.his.path.cam.ac.uk/phealth/phweb.html
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/otherebmgen.html
Health Promotion Research Internet Network http://www.ki.se/phs/hprin/main.htm
McMaster University, Canada http://hiru.hirunet.mcmaster.ca/ebm/
New York Academy of Medicine http://library.nyam.org/library/eblinks.html
Ottawa General Hospital (Resources for Evidence-based Medicine and Evidence-based Practice) http://www.ogh.on.ca/library/evidence.htm
Oxford Clinical Information WWW Pages http://users.ox.ac.uk/~clnguide/world.htm
Project Connect [North Thames] http://www.nthames- health.tpmde.ac.uk/ntrl/connect/ebh.htm
Ruralnet : Evidence Based Medicine Data Sources http://ruralnet.marshall.edu/ebm/
South and West Health Care Libraries http://www.soton.ac.uk/~swhclu/ebm.htm
Evidence Based Health
Policy and Management
The principal purpose of the Journal of Evidence-Based Health Policy and
Management is to provide managers with the best evidence available about
the financing, organisation and delivery of health care.The policy and procedures of
the journal are described in detail
http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/jebhpm/index.html
Evidence Based
Medicine
The purpose of Evidence-Based Medicine is to alert clinicians to important
advances in internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery,
psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology by selecting from the
biomedical literature those original and review articles whose results are most
likely to be both true and useful. These articles are summarised in value-added
abstracts and commented on by clinical experts. A guest site is
also hosted at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. http://www.acponline.org/journals/ebm/ebmmenu.htm
Evidence Based Medicine Resource List
This site maintained by Chris Cox at the Library at the University of
Hertfordshire has useful references and links to other resources. Although
lacking the comprehensiveness of the ScHARR Guide to Evidence Based Practice
this site more than makes up for this with its consciseness and clarity.
Probably the best single compilation page on EBM on the Web.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/lrc/subjects/health/ebm.htm
Evidence Based
Mental Health
This sister journal to Evidence Based Medicine is due to be published Jan/Feb
1998 by the BMJ Publishing Group.http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/cebmh/cover.htm
Evidence
Based Purchasing
Evidence-Based Purchasing is a bi-monthly digest of evidence about effective
care and is intended to support the commissioning role. It is a selection of
material received, commissioned, or found in journals by South and West R&D
Directorate.
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/rd/publicat/ebpurch/index.htm
Evidence
Based Pathology
This site, developing at the University of Nottingham, is currently a gateway
to resources on EBM. However it is likely to develop into a valuable resource
in its own right. http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~mpzjlowe/evpath.html
A list of EBM topics organised alphabetically by Medical subject heading with hypertext links to the relevant WWW page. Amongst the sources covered are Bandolier, some of the EBM journal clubs on the internet, the AHCPR and US and Canadian Preventative Task Force Guidelines. Now you can follow up your MEDLINE search by looking at the appropriate MeSH heading in this very useful list. http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ebm/ebm_topics.htm
Framework for Appropriate
Care Throughout Sheffield (FACTS) Project
This is a city-wide project based in Sheffield aimed at implementing change
in primary care. Initial efforts have been aimed at getting aspirin to heart
disease patients in Sheffield. The full text of a report, Lessons
from FACTS, detailing the methods of the project together with broader
implications for evidence-based change management is available from their Web
site .
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/facts/
Most of these sites give guidance on how to filter the higher quality evidence
from Medline. The majority of them utilise the research conducted by McMaster
University.
A quick check to see if there is any evidence in your chosen topic area could
involve the following steps:-
A Gathering of Evidence [Newsletter]
A Gathering of Evidence is published periodically by Group Health Northwest. It
summarises clinical articles based on rigourous research from major biomedical
journals. Abstracts of articles are prepared to provide practitioners with the
information they need to review the type of study, the population studied, the
methods used, and the key results of the study. Commentary by a physician
affiliated with Group Health Northwest accompanies the abstract, as well as
suggested evidence-based medicine resources.The same organisation produces what
it claims are evidence based guidelines. Topics covered to date include Use of
x-rays to evaluate ankle and foot injuries in adults (The Ottawa Ankle Rules),
Measuring Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) to screen for prostate cancer,
Neuroanatomic Imaging in Patients with Acute Low Back Pain, Surgery in Patients
with herniated Lumbar Disc and the Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids in Pregnant
Women at Risk of Preterm Delivery
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (2nd
edition)
This full text resource is the 1996 edition which reviews evidence for many
types of screening procedures. This supersedes the 1989 version
which is also available on the World Wide Web.
http://text.nlm.nih.gov
Health
Reviews for Primary Care Providers
A listing of documents about primary care medicine and medical practice,
available through the World Wide Web. Some links are to the documents
themselves. Others are to article reviews, plus links to the articles'
abstracts, when available.The documents were selected to serve the information
needs of primary care practitioners.
http://www.mcphu.edu/libraries/resources/reviews/revw_ind.htm
A number of sites provide examples of guidelines or descriptions of guideline development methodologies. A selection of these is listed below:
Health Technology
Assessment Reports
This resource at the Wessex Institute for Research and Development contains
abstracts for the completed reviews from the National Health Service Health
Technology Assessment Programme.
http://vessey.wiphm.soton.ac.uk/hta/htapubs.html
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario (ICES) is a
non-profit research organization dedicated to conducting research that
contributes to the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of health care in the
province of Ontario. It produces the newsletter informed for physicians. http://www.ices.on.ca/
Journal Club on the Web
This web site is an experiment in implementing an on-line, interactive general
medical "journal club" which periodically summarizes and critiques
articles from the recent medical literature and collects and posts readers'
comments.The articles are primarily in the field of adult internal medicine,
and mainly from the NEJM, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA and the Lancet.
http://www.journalclub.org/
Journal of Family
Practice Journal Club Web Page
The JFP Journal Club is a feature of the Journal of Family Practice which each
month reviews 7-10 important articles from the primary care literature. The
goal is to identify articles which have the potential to change the way you
practice, critically appraise them, and make specific recommendations for
clinical practice (called POEM's, for Patient Oriented Evidence That Matters).
The editors review some 80 clinical journals every month covering the most
important findings for family physicians in the medical literature on a timely
basis.
http://www.phymac.med.wayne.edu/jfp/jclub.htm
There are a number of sites that provide printed assistance on all stages of
the EBM searching process. These include:
MD Digests
This feature of the Physician's Page of the Silverplatter information resource
includes clinical questions answered from a recent article of literature and
supported by a selective bibliography.
http://php2.silverplatter.com/physicians/digest.htm
The National Library of
Medicine's Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
This WWW resource contains the following collections AHCPR Supported
Guidelines, AHCPR Technology Assessments and Reviews, ATIS (HIV/AIDS Technical
Information), NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Research Studies, NIH Consensus
Development Program, PHS Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (1989) and
SAMHSA/CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP). http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/gateway
Numbers
Needed to Treat and Likelihood
Ratios.
This resource provides form-fill calculators for computing Numbers Needed to
Treat and Likelihood Ratios, Sensitivity and Specificity and the Bayesian
Analysis Model. http://hiru.hirunet.mcmaster.ca/ebm/userguid/2_tools.htm
and http://hiru.hirunet.mcmaster.ca/ebm/userguid/3_tools.htm
Office of Technology Assessment
Although the remit of the U.S. based Office of Technology Assessment is much
broader than just healthcare they do produce a number of useful reports;
including the report "Identifying Health Technologies that Work". The
full text of their reports is available from this site.
http://www.wws.princeton.edu:80/~ota
Oxford & Anglia Mental Health Web (OXAMWEB) To help support evidence-based practice, the Directorate of Research and Development for the Anglia and Oxford Region has provided resources for Internet connection in librariesin the Region and for the development of OXAMWEB. To be included in OXAMWEB, articles must fulfil the following minimum criteria written in English, free to view, easy to understand and clearly presented, likely to be relevant and helpful to site users/ patients/ professionals. An important part of the material, marked with an EB (evidence-based) logo, also fulfils the more stringent criteria of Evidence Based Medicine. http://strauss.ihs.ox.ac.uk/oxamweb.html
Primary Care Sharing the Evidence
Project (PRISE) The PRISE (Primary Care Sharing the Evidence) project is
part of the libraries and librarian development programme managed by the Health
Care Libraries Unit and supported by the Anglia and Oxford R&D Directorate.
PRISE is a two year project which aims to provide timely access to high quality
evidence for GP's and other practice-based professionals. The project focuses
on twelve Primary Health care sites, including one dental practice and two GP
practices in each of the four counties of the former Oxford Health Authority
Region.http://libsun1.jr2.ox.ac.uk/prise/
R&D Strategy pages
Most of these pages deal with the mechanics of the strategy but many
practitioners will be interested in research per se and will want to keep up to
date with the NHS strategy. There are now several home pages. They include a Department of Health R&D
Strategy Home Page http://www.open.gov.uk/doh/rdd1.htm
All the Regional Offices have committed to having a Regional home page. So far there are six -
RAND Corporation
RAND is a US-based nonprofit institution that aims to improve public policy
through research and analysis. RAND aims to carry out high-quality, objective
research addressing problems of domestic policy including health care. RAND has
been studying health care issues for more than thirty years. Today, RAND
conducts one of the largest private, nonprofit programs of health policy
research and analysis in the world. They publish numerous reports and other
documents in areas of health care technology assessment.
http://www.rand.org/
Screening
and Diagnostic Tests (Cochrane Collaboration)
The Cochrane Collaboration Methods Working Group on Screening and Diagnostic
Tests has placed its recommendations on how to search for, appraise and pool
results of studies of diagnostic accuracy on the Web. The document includes a
methodological bibliography.
http://wwwsom.fmc.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/COCHRANE/cochrane/sadtdoc1.htm
School of
Health and Related Research(ScHARR), University of Sheffield
School of Health And Related Research (ScHARR) This health services research
department within the University of Sheffield is involved in finding the
evidence (expertise in literature searching); appraising the evidence (critical
appraisal training) and producing the evidence (systematic reviews). The
Information Resources Section of ScHARR produces a bibliography and resource
guide entitled "The ScHARR Guide to Evidence Based Practice". A
Microsoft Word Version 6 copy of this publication is available to download here. If your browser has this helper application it
will start up and load the file, if the helper application is not available you
can save the file for later use. File is 361472 bytes.. Printed copies are
available for Ł10.00 (inclusive of Postage & Packing) from ScHARR
Information Resources. [Cheques payable to the University of Sheffield].
Address:-
Type of resource : Organisation, Information Service, Training Course
Provider, WWW resource list, WWW site
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/index.html
ScHARR-Lock’s
Guide to the Evidence
This is a guide to printed sources of evidence arranged by Medical Subject
Heading (MeSH). It focuses on grey literature from UK academic and
quasi-governmental sources and aims to complement Michael Zack’s list of
Evidence-based Topics (See above). Type of resource : WWW resource list. http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/scebm.html
Scottish Health Purchasing Information
Centre (SHPIC)
SHPIC was set up by the NHS Management Executive to carry out effectiveness and
cost benefit studies on health service interventions, and to produce concise
reports for purchasers. The full text of their current publications is
available from this site. http://www.nahat.net/shpic/
Scottish Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network (SIGN)
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) develops and publishes
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for use by the health service in
Scotland. Full text of many of their guidelines is avaialable from their site.
You will however require an Acrobat Reader.
http://pc47.cee.hw.ac.uk/sign/home.htm
South and
West R&D Briefing Papers
The Briefing Papers Series commissioned by the R&D directorate offers brief
but authorative discussions on the effectiveness of health interventions. http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/rd/publicat/briefing/index.htm
A number of sites provide good introductions to study design. These include:
Systematic Literature Review Training Module This module at the University of Leeds has been designed to provide a basic introduction to the systematic literature review process. It follows the NHS CRD Guidelines for systematic reviews and includes a self assessment questionnaire for evaluating learning outcomes.
Systematic Reviews Training
Unit
The Systematic Reviews Training Unit (SRTU) has been set up with funding for
the first three years from North and South Thames Regional Research and
Development Programmes. The Unit is a joint initiative of the Institute of
Child Health, the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and University College
London. The Unit is supported by Collaborative Reviews Group, whose members are
drawn from a variety of disciplines including child health, care of the
elderly, cardiovascular disease, primary care, genito-urinary medicine and
public health medicine. Staff of the Unit work closely with members of the
Collaborative Reviews Group, providing training and in the development of
systematic review methodology. The main aims of the Unit are to train health
professionals in the conduct of systematic reviews. This will enable trainees
to:
develop the skills required to formulate answerable questions about the
effectiveness of health care practice and policy and conduct systemtic reviews
of research evidence to address these questions; acquire an understanding of
methods for effective dissemination and promotion of the implementation of
review findings.
http://www.ich.bpmf.ac.uk/ebm/srtu.htm
UK
Clearing House on Health Outcomes,including an Outcomes
Database of Structured Abstracts
The UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes is based within the Nuffield Institute
for Health, at the University of Leeds. The Clearing House aims: to develop
approaches to outcomes assessment within routine health care practice; to
encourage a shift from process to outcome measures and the use of patient
centred and clinically relevant outcomes criteria; to support the use of
process information and existing data sources where it is not yet feasible to
measure outcomes directly; to raise awareness about key issues in health
outcome measurement; to promote the role of health outcomes within decision
making in health care commissioning and provision. They have two databases
available on the WWW; the other being an Outcomes
Activities Database containing a wide range of outcomes related projects.
This forms the basis for networking people working in similar areas or using
similar measures.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/UKCH/home.html Other outcomes
sites of potential interest include:-
Unit for
Evidence Based Practice and Policy (UEBPP)
The UEBPP is a 'virtual' subunit of the Joint Department of Primary Care and
Population Sciences (PCPS) of the merged medical schools of University College
London and the Royal Free Hospital. Their web page is maintained by Dr Trisha
Greenhalgh, and describes the work of a number of key staff at PCPS who
undertake work in evidence-based health.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/primcare-popsci/uebpp/uebpp.htm
Users' Guides to the Health Care Literature
The Evidence Based Medicine Working Group, a group of clinicians at McMaster
and colleagues across North America, have created a set of guides, published in
the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The Users' Guide series
aim to assist clinicians to keep up to date in their clinical discipline and to
find the best way to manage a particular clinical problem. The User's Guides
put much emphasis on integrative studies, including systematic overviews,
practice guidelines, decision analysis, and economic analysis. They introduce
strategies for efficiently searching the medical literature. Full-text of some
of the Guides is available. http://hiru.hirunet.mcmaster.ca/ebm/userguid/default.htm
A complete list of the
published guides, together with their full bibliographic references is
available. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/userg.html
Wessex Institute for Health Research
and Development
The Wessex Institute aims to provide the highest quality research and
intelligence, education and training and innovation and development services.
It aims to help the NHS to secure the strongest possible knowledge base for
improving the health of the population. http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wi/index.html
WISDOM Project
WISDOM is a pilot project based at the University of Sheffield and funded by
the National Health Service Executive to create an on-line environment, using
the Internet to train primary care professionals in informatics. At the heart
of the project is a discussion group: this web site supports the group and
offers information resources and background to the project. Evidence Based
Practice is one of the focus areas for the project (Practice because it targets
all members of the Primary Health Care Team). Several tutorials, originally
distributed by e-mail but now deposited in the project archive, cover aspects of
evidence based practice. http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/wrp/index.html.
Tutorials to date cover:
Workshop on How to Teach Evidence Based Medicine
McMaster University Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics have assembled sets of readings dealing with evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal issues in therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, harm, overviews and economic analysis. Some materials, complete with checklists and cribsheets is available on the Internet, and may be downloaded to support Critical Appraisal skills programmes locally. http://hiru.hirunet.mcmaster.ca/ebm/workshop/
This resource list is produced by Andrew Booth BA Dip Lib ALA at the School of
Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield. Additional
related bookmarks can be found in my personal
hotlist
Date last amended: 04/09/1997
If you have any comments or suggestions for this list please mail me at Andrew Booth
Behavioural Sciences at Nottingham University
Biostatistics Papers and Technical Reports
CBO Health Care Outcomes Programme ECCHO
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
Centre for Health Research & Evaluation World Wide Web Page
Cochrane Collaboration (Netherlands)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Directory of /internet/ftp/Default/EBM/WORKSHOP/THERAPY
Dr Felix's Cyber Resources for Audit Page
Evidence Based Medicine (Australia)
Evidence Based Medicine - Norway
Evidence Based Medicine - Zacks Site
http://www.suffolk-maag.ac.uk/evidence/index.html
Evidence-based health care resources
Evidence-Based Medicine - Legal
Explanation - Evidence Based Living
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/rd/publicat/ebpurch/subjind.htm
http://www.nthames-health.tpmde.ac.uk/chain.htm
http://www.nthames-health.tpmde.ac.uk/ntrl/chain.htm
http://www.scarbvts.demon.co.uk/ebm.htm
Scientific Evidence for Homeopathic Medicine