When Less Is More: A Practical Approach to Searching for Evidence-based Answers
- Article provides librarians with a guide to evaluating and selecting medical literature for clinical research. From the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
- http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=116402&blobtype=pdf
Evidence Based News
- The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern California, USA presents tutorials, case studies and teaching resources for health professionals.
- http://www.usc.edu/hsc/ebnet/
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
- Lecture notes concerning evidence-based principles can be found in this extensive and searchable collection for healthcare students.
- http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/s/u/super1/public/html/
SEEK: Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge
- Gateway to electronic resources, databases, and clinical guidelines for policy makers, clinicians and researchers. Provided by the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/seek/
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
- A database of measure sets for practitioners, health delivery systems, and health care providers, with standardized abstracts and ordering details. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the USA.
- http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/
Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales
- A collaboration between public health organisations, healthcare providers and libraries, publishing results of randomised controlled trials and observational studies into health and disease.
- http://hebw.uwcm.ac.uk/
Evidence-based Decision Making
- Resources for health care policy makers, with article summaries, a critical appraisal journal club, and recommendations for creating guidelines. Presented by the University of Sydney, Australia.
- http://www.evidencebased.net/
Evidence Based Medicine
- Lists a series of downloadable bulletins explaining the basic concepts and applications. Produced for healthcare managers and policymakers by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
- http://www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk/what_is_series.html
Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook
- Describes the process of creating systematic reviews. Directed at healthcare providers, consumers, researchers, and policy makers.
- http://www.cochrane.dk/cochrane/handbook/whnjs.htm
Directory of Clinical Information Websites
- The Department of Family Medicine at Laval University, France, offers critical assessments of evidence-based health sites. [French and English]
- http://132.203.128.28/medecine/
Evidence Based Health
- A mailing list for healthcare practitioners, with searchable archives accessible to non-subscribers.
- http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH.html