Evidence Based Links

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Evidence-based resources
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  • Evidence-based Practice Centres Edit
    These centres have been 'contracted' to provide overviews of the published literature in certain areas of expertise that include technology evaluation and specific areas of care. The results of some of these contracted overviews are now available on this site.... about half way down the first page.
  • Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment Edit
    Very well done!!! Contains links to many different comprehensive health technology reviews.
  • Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Edit
    This site provides direct links to full evidence-based reviews of preventive care strategies. Excellent site and a great resource.
  • Agency for Health Care Policy Research Edit
    Excellent resource.... contains links to evidence-based overviews, guidelines, summaries and other sites. Make sure you visit this site!!!!!
  • Evidence-based Medicine Edit
    Evidence-based Medicine is a journal that is co-published by the American College of Physicians and the British Medical Journal. This site contains links to full text summaries from all issues of this journal. An excellent resource.
  • EBM toolkit Edit
    A pretty comprehensive set of tools to help understand the most important concepts from our friends in Alberta.
  • JAMA Users' Guides Edit
    Link to full text of the original JAMA Users' Guides. Complements of Rob Hayward....
  • Evidence-based Medical Practice Edit
    An excellent intiative that critically appraises EBM web sites regarding content and presentation. Excellent links.
  • Pratique medicale fondee sure les preuves scientifiques Edit
    La pratique médicale devrait s'appuyer sur des PREUVES SCIENTIFIQUES solides lorsqu'elles sont disponibles. Les professionnels de la santé doivent donc rechercher et identifier l'information médicale pertinente de qualité parmi toute celle accessible dans internet. Magnifique!!
  • EBM, Epi and Biostats resources Edit
    A very extensive links page with access to many useful resources such as: CMAJ basic stats for clinicians series; BMJ statistics at square one seriers; BMJ how to read a paper series and many many more.
  • Dip of ICM HitParade of key references Edit
    Not exactly and EBM site, but worth a visit by ANYONE writing an exam in intensive care. An excellent list of papers you should be 'up on'. Great comments on each paper. Caused me to ROFLMAO.
  • A page on EBM Edit
    Great links to other resources. A must visit...
  • What is systematic review? Edit
    Web site offers information about what systematic review are and how to conduct them. Some regard systematic reviews as the highest level of evidence in medical research. Others rank well done Level I trials higher than systematic reviews of Level II trials
  • What percent of practice is evidence-based? Edit
    Nice review of papers reporting % practice by discipline.
  • Evidence-based dictionary Edit
    A very nice collection of definitions related to clinical trials, evidence-based medicine and research.
  • Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) Edit
    An EBM resource to support clinicians on the frontline. This database offers must-have EBM content, guidelines, calculators, daily email updates, and tools. It organizes the information in one place to save you time in your search. EE+ brings information into practice with concise, easily digestible summaries to inform point-of-care decisions, improve patient outcomes, and get you to the Bottom Line instantly.
  • An Introduction to EBM Edit
    Nice overview.
  • British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment. Edit
    This is an EXCELLENT resource site!! The BCOHTA has been contracted to perform evidence-based systematic overviews of the effectiveness and value of a broad range of 'technologies'. The overviews undertaken range from the role of acupuncture in drug withdrawal to the role bone mineral density testing. Final results of the appraisals are presented on-line in a format that can be critically appraised.
  • AnestCadiz (in Spanish) Edit
    Un recurso español interesante de la lengua para las revisiones en anestesia, cuidado intensivo y medicina del dolor. ¡[ excuse por favor mi español!!! - Gord]
  • Centre for Evidence-based Medicine Edit
    Has some very useful links to on-line resources. A 'must visit'.....
  • Canadian Cochrane Centre Edit
    Interesting site for contacts but does not contain the results of the Overviews.
  • The Centre for the Evaluation of Medicines Edit
    Provides an overview of studies presently ongoing or near completion. Does not yet provide links to final results of studies in a format that can be critically appraised.
  • Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network (HEALNet) Edit
    Good resource for contacts and ongoing research.
  • Health Information Research Unit Edit
    Describes the activities of the HIRU at McMaster University.
  • Glossary of common EBDM terms Edit
    Provides definitions of terms commonly encountered in the practice of evidence-based decision making.

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Evidence-based guidelines and pathways
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  • Cancer Care Ontario Edit
    Provides full text of evidence-based guidelines for cancer therapy. These guidelines are written for both the patient and the practitioner. Excellent resource site.
  • Agency for Health Care Policy Research Edit
    Excellent resource.... contains links to evidence-based overviews, guidelines, summaries and other sites. Make sure you visit this site!!!!!
  • American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines Edit
    Contains links to full-text, evidence-based guidelines supported by ACP-ASIM. Excellent site.
  • New Zealand Guidelines Group Edit
    A very comprehensive web site with access to tools to aid the development of guidelines and a collection of guidelines that can be critically appraised.
  • IMVent Guidelines Resource Edit
    An excellent collection of guidelines from a Collective Task Force Facilitated by the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Association for Respiratory Care, and the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
    Links to the original publications allow the reader to critically appraise these guidelines.
  • The Guideline Clearing House Edit
    A very useful site that allows you to perform searches for published guidelines. Unfortunately not all of the guidelines in this site are truly evidence-based, not all have been peer reviewed and very few have been evaluated in formal studies. Caveat emptor!!!
  • British Columbia Council on Clinical Practice Guidelines Edit
    Interesting site but unfortunately the CPGs presented on the site are not structured using an Evidence-based format so it is impossible to appropriately critically appraise their content to determine validity.
  • McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Centre Edit
    This intiative is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy Research. The page provides an excellent overview of this important initiative. Unfortunately results are not yet persented on-line.

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Evidence-based journal clubs
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  • American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club Edit
    The BEST resource for pre-appraised articles in internal medicine!!!!
  • Evidence Based Medicine Edit
    Evidence-based Medicine is a journal that is co-published by the American College of Physicians and the British Medical Journal. This site contains links to full text summaries from all issues of this journal. An excellent resource.
  • PedsCCM EB Journal Club Edit
    An excellent source of pre-appraised pediatric (and adult) critical care papers.
  • Evidence-based Nursing Edit
    An excellent site that provides access to critical appraisals on a number of different topics.
  • Bandolier Edit
    An excellent resource for critical appraisals and overviews on a number of topics. A must visit!!!
  • Scottish IC Journal Club Edit
    Provides some excellent reviews on entire topics. Well worth a visit!!!
  • Intensive Care Monitor Edit
    A current awareness journal for the busy intensivist. It consists of specially written extended abstracts of papers, graded by evidence level, covering RCTs across the disciplines, all impacting on critical care. Each abstract is accompanied by an expert comment from a leading international specialist. (NB- As of my last check, ICM was not entirely 'evidence-based' because although it does provide 'expert comment' on each RCT, it does not formally systematically appraise the internal validity of each paper reviewed. i.e. ICM does not present the results of a critical appraisal of each paper using the JAMA Series Users' Guides - Gord)

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Health Economics sites
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  • Value in Health Edit
    The official journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal reporting on evaluations of medical technologies including pharmaceuticals, biologics, devices, procedures, and other health care interventions and all content 12-months and older is free to all. The journal provides a scientific forum for communicating health economics and outcomes research methods and findings, furthering ISPOR's vision that 'society allocate scarce health care resources wisely, fairly, and efficiently.' It is also a sounding board for the discussion of health policy issues related to health economics and outcomes studies associated with all medical technologies.
  • Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Edit
    Very interesting resource. Unfortunatly I could not get the searchable database of published articles to work.... I will re-visit at a later date to evaluate the information provided on this site.

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Health Services/Outcomes Research sites
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Evidence-based Health Administration sites
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Online Search
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  • The NEW PubMed search engine Edit
    This is the latest implementation of the PubMed search engine.... probably just as good as the old PubMed...
  • Highly Sensitive Critical Care MEDLINE Search Term Edit
    Click on the above URL to submit the following critical care search to PubMed.
    (critical* OR intensive* OR intensive care OR intensive care units OR "intensive therapy" OR critically ill OR critical illness OR critical care)
    After submitting this term to a new session of PubMed, you can cross it against ('AND') other terms simply by referring to it by its History #.
  • More Specific Critical Care MEDLINE Search Term Edit
    Click on the above URL to submit the following critical care search to PubMed:
    ("intensive care" OR "intensive care units" OR "intensive therapy" OR "critically ill" OR "critical care")
    After submitting this term to a new session of PubMed, you can cross it against ('AND') other terms simply by referring to it by its History #.
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse Edit
    A very useful site that allows you to perform searches for published guidelines. Unfortunately not all of the guidelines in this site are truly evidence-based, not all have been peer reviewed and very few have been evaluated in formal studies. Caveat emptor!!!
  • Hydrotherapy RCTs Edit

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Other
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  • Early PN Trial Edit
    The site has gone live and the generic password has been removed. NOTE: If you are having problems accessing the secure site with Microsoft Internet Explorer, select Tools| Internet Options| Advanced, scroll down to the Security section and select Check for Server Certificate revocation. Restart Explorer (exit the program and then re-enter). The site should now work.
  • The History of Clinical Trials Edit
    This site, also known as the James Lind Library, documents "the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments." A great resource!!
  • Subgroup analysis simulator Edit
    Every time you do a subgroup ananlysis, you increase your chance of a false positive result. Don't believe me? Goto this page and role a twenty sided dice 10 times. If the p-value we accept as being 'real' is <0.05, then every time this d20 lands with a 20 up, it represents a false positive result from your trial!!
  • RCT filter Edit
    This pushes the RCT, guidelines and systematic review 'study type' filters to PubMed.

Contents copyright © 2000 EvidenceBased.net
Design, layout and images by John Soer and Gordon Doig, March 2000.
Page last modified on Friday March 5, 2004