Evidence Based Medicine
This resource guide contains links and tools to assist you in finding evidence based medicine resources.
Guide Editor: Will Olmstadt
Resources:
Non-Subscription Resources |
| Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. |
| Guide to Clincal Preventive Services, 2nd & 3rd Editions Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The latest recommendations are released incrementally as they become available in the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Third Edition: Periodic Updates. These recommendations address new topics and update the 1996 recommendations from the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition. |
| How to Form an Answerable Clinical Question This guide from Cincinnati Children's Hospital leads you through forming an answerable clinical question using the popular PICO model. |
| National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) A public resource for evidence based clinical practice guidelines. The NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). |
| PubMed Clinical Queries This is a service from PubMed that allows for specialized searching for clinicians. It allow searching by clinical study category, systematic reviews and medical genetics topics. |
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Subscription Resources |
| ACP Journal Club The content is carefully selected from over 100 clinical journals through reliable application of explicit criteria for scientific merit, followed by assessment of relevance to medical practice by clinical specialists. |
| Clinical Evidence from BMJ Publishing Group Owned by BMJ Publishing group, this is an international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. |
| Cochrane Library Consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence based medicine databases and is comprised of the following databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a collection of structured, systematic reviews of health care interventions including adverse effect information; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, structured abstracts of systematic reviews from around the world; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of of Effects; The Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials; The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews; and Health Technology Assessment Database. |
| Evidence Based Medicine Filters in Ovid Medline Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) filters are searches that have been developed by experienced searchers to make it easy to do searches in specific areas of clinical medicine. The EBM filter searches that we've chosen to use for Ovid have been developed by librarians at the Miner Library at the University of Rochester, and adapted to resources at Becker Medical Library. |
| Evidence Medicine Tools for Your Palm Top Computer An article from the May 2003 issue of American Family Physician reviewing EBM tools for PDA's. |
| FIRSTConsult (available via MDConsult) FIRSTConsult, a highly innovative, evidence-based clinical information tool for health care providers, is part of the MD Consult Clinical Knowledge System. In collaboration with an Editorial Board of respected authors and opinion leaders, FIRSTConsult synthesizes findings from journals and other respected references into a templated knowledge base that is organized into a highly accessible format. |
| Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters (POEMs) Contains all POEMs published in The Journal of Family Practice between August 2000 and the present. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order. (Note: Requires a user name and password to access fulltext, see the library catalog for details or call the reference desk at 362-7085.) |
| PIER Online (Available via Clinical Pharmacology) PIER, Physicians' Information and Education Resource, is an electronic medical resource from the American College of Physicians that provides healthcare professionals, educators, students, managers, insurers, policy makers and others with access to actionable, evidence-based guidelines to improve the quality of patient care and save clinicians valuable time. Structured in a layered format, PIER modules are designed to allow you to drill down from more general to specific, targeted information, with immediate access to underlying supporting evidence from the medical literature. |
| UpToDate UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to physicians on the internet, CD-ROM, and Pocket PC. UpToDate is designed to get physicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point of care. |
| Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice This is an authoritative manual for evidence-based clinical practice. (Note: Access is restricted to three simultaneous users only.) |
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