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Evidence-Based Medicine

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A User's Guide to Qualitative Research in Health Care
Posted by the Centre for Health Evidence.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Includes reports on outcomes and effectiveness, technology assessment, and healthcare costs and utilization. Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
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AHRQ: Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Based on U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations from 2001 to 2004 to rigorously evaluate clinical research in order to assess the merits of preventive measures, including screening tests, counseling, and preventive medication.
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Bandolier-Evidence Based Health Care

Full-text evidence-based medicine articles. Archives cover from 1994 through the present and can be browsed by date or subject. Published monthly by the United Kingdom's National Health Service.

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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Instructional materials, clinical tools, and glossary for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine. EBM Toolbox contains articles and interactive components for practitioners. Also contains CATbank, a database of Clinically Appraised Topics.
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Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
Includes Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED). Also includes systematic reviews, cost-effectiveness information, and Cochrane Library training materials. Provided by the United Kingdom National Health Service.
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Clinical Queries
Specialized search interface for searching MEDLINE for evidence-based articles. Searches by keyword, category (therapy, diagnosis, etiology, or prognosis), and emphasis (sensitivity or specificity).
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Cochrane Collaboration
International non-profit group providing resources for researching and developing systematic reviews of health care topics. Includes searchable database of systematic review abstracts.
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Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit
Search strategies and user guides for therapy/prevention, diagnostic tests, prognosis, harm, clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and economic analysis. Also includes worksheets, EBM definitions, and a MEDLINE glossary.
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Health-Evidence.ca
Online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions.
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Introduction to Information Mastery
Web-based course teaching basics of evidence-based medicine. Course arranged in five sections with suggested completion times ranging from 1 to 4 hours per section.
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National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
Database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Structured abstracts summarize guidelines and development process. All guidelines in English, < 5 years old, and systematically developed. Full-text links when available. Produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
Public repository includes information on specific evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets.
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Netting the Evidence: Index of Evidence Based Medicine Sites
Annotated index of evidence-based medicine websites. Also contains current awareness search for EBM materials recently added to MEDLINE.
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PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Contains bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Searchable by type of therapy, problem, body part, subdiscipline, source, date, and/or author. Maintained by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP) at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney.
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center Evidence Based Medicine Tutorial
Online course includes sections on purposes of EBM, a guide to research methods, database searching, and evaluating studies. Search examples use Ovid interface.
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Users’ Guides Interactive
"The UGI Learner Web site contains the entire Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice CD-ROM content. The Web site makes this content interactive with dynamic tips, worksheets, calculators, question wizards, and illustrative clinical cases. UGI Learner is a joint project between the Centre for Health Evidence and JAMA & Archives Journals of the American Medical Association."
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