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Evidence Based Practice

ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials

Advisory Board Company
How to access the site (WA Health intranet link)
The Advisory Board gathers data from its US and international membership to publish news services, major studies and customised research briefs on progressive management and clinical practices in health care.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US)

Australasian Cochrane Centre

Bandolier: Evidence Based Health Care

Becoming ADEPT: (Applying Diagnosis, (a)Etiology, Prognosis & Therapy methodological filters to retrieving the evidence)

Best BETs - Best Evidence Topics

Best Practice Information Sheets from the Joanna Briggs Institute

Campbell Collaboration
Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of social and educational policies and practices.

CareSearch (Australian Palliative Care database)

CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

Centre for Allied Health Evidence (University of South Australia)

Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (Monash University, Australia)
Monash Institute of Health Services Research

Centre for Evidence Based Child Health (UK)

Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Centre For Evidence Based Practice Australasia

Centre for Health Evidence

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (UK National Library for Health)

Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Collaboration - Impact of Cochrane Evidence

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Core Library for Evidence Based Practice

Current Controlled Trials

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)

Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

Definitions of Evidence Based Practice

DynaMed

Emory University Emergency Medicine-Ambulatory Care Evidence Based Medicine

Evidence Based Decision Making: An Evidence Based Reference Site for Healthcare Decision Makers
From Royal North Shore Hospital & the University of Sydney.

Evidence-Based Health Care Project (University of Minnesota)

Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet (Medical Library Association)

Evidence Based Medicine(the journal)

Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit

Evidence-Based On-Call Database

Evidence Based Practice Research Group - Occupational Therapy (McMaster University)

Evidence Matters
The "Basic Free Version" compares therapies (effectiveness, safety and cost) for a specific patient using peer-reviewed medical research. Currently covers cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynaecology, neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, paediatrics and urology.

Evidence That Changed Medical Practice

Evidence Update
Two-page summaries of Cochrane Reviews of healthcare interventions relevant to people in low-income and middle income-countries.

Health Technology Assessment (NHS)

Health-Evidence.ca Promoting Evidence-informed Decision Making

How to Read a Paper
Full text of the book available.

James Lind Library: Illustrating the Developments of Fair Tests of Treatments in Health Care

Joanna Briggs Institute and JBI Connect

Medical Outcomes Trust

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (US National Institutes of Health)

National Guideline Clearinghouse (US)

National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) Australia

Netting the Evidence Google Custom Search Engine
Searches over one hunded websites associated with the methodology of evidence based practice

New Zealand Health Technology Assessment

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York)

NHS Evidence
A meta-search of authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practices from the UK NHS.

NSW Speech Pathology EBP Network

OT CATS - Critically Appraised Topics in Occupational Therapy

OT Seeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence)

PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database

PICOmaker
A free Palm OS-based application that lets users create and store queries in the PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) format for later reference.

Practice Guidelines (MD Consult)

Rehabilitation's Evidence Based Practice Web Site
University of Ottawa, Canada.

Research in Practice for Adults
Adult social care services.

SUMSearch
Meta search tool which searches across several evidence based health sources

Therapeutics Initiative - Evidence Based Drug Therapy (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice)
A meta-search engine that searches across sites of high-quality clinical information.

Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice (the JAMA Articles)

What Proportion of Healthcare is Evidence Based: Resource Guide

Page last updated / reviewed: 23 November 2009
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