Links and General Info
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Evidence-based Health Care Links and General Info

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
http://www.ahcpr.gov/

Bandolier - evidence-based thinking about health care
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html

The Cochrane Collaboration
http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm

The Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network
http://www.cochrane.org/consumers/homepage.htm

The Cochrane Consumers and Communication Reivew Group Resource Bank
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cochrane/resourcebank/resourcebank.html

Cochrane Cancer Network
http://www.canet.org/

Discern Online - tools for evaluating evidence-based medicine
http://www.discern.org.uk

Duke University Medical Center Library's Introduction to Evidence-based Medicine
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/index.htm

Evidence-based Medicine Internet Resources - HKU Libraries
http://lib.hku.hk/medlib/IR/Internet%20Resources%20Evidence%20Based%20Medicine.htm

Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
(in association with The New York Academy of Medicine and the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York )
http://www.ebmny.org

Evidence-based Practice Journal
http://www.ebponline.net/

Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research - list of EBHC websites and online books
http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_journals/Evidence-based_medicine_clinical_guidelines.htm

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis - using decision sciences to promote public health
http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/index.html

Informed Health Online - consumer information about evidence-based health care
http://www.informedhealthonline.org/item.aspx

The Institute for Self-Directed Care - a list of EBHC resources
http://www.selfdirectedcare.org/evidence_based_medicine.htm

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/rwjf/

The James Lind Library - documenting the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/

The Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/epc/default.htm

Netting the Evidence
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/
http://www.infodoctor.org/rafabravo/netting.htm (Spanish version)

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
Ask NOAH About Evidence-based Medicine
http://www.noah-health.org/en/ebm/

New Zealand Guidelines Group - promoting effective health & disability services
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/index.cfm?screensize=1024&ScreenResSet=yes

"Now You Have a Diagnosis, What's Next?" - online resources for making treatment decisions
http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/diaginfo.htm

Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence (OTSeeker)
http://www.otseeker.com/

Open Clinical - knowledge management for medical care
http://www.openclinical.org/ebm.html

Ottawa Health Research Institute - Patient decision aids
http://decisionaid.ohri.ca/index.html

Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
http://www.cebm.net/
http://www.cebm.net/learning_ebm.asp

Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine - Critical Appraisal
http://www.cebm.net/critical_appraisal.asp

Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)
http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/

Trials Central - free and confidential access to listings of clinical trials
http://www.trialscentral.org/

UK Cochrane Centre
http://www.cochrane.co.uk/

University of Alberta Centre for Health Evidence
http://www.cche.net/che/home.asp

University of Maryland Medical School - Center for Integrative Medicine
http://www.compmed.umm.edu/bios.html

University of Massachusetts Medical School
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/othersites.html

University of Toronto Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

University of Rochester - Edward G. Miner Library - Nesbit guide to evidence based resources
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/digital_library/evidence_based_resources.cfm

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Articles

American College of Physicians - Effective Clinical Practice Primers
http://www.acponline.org/journals/ecp/primers.htm

"Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat" by David G Altman
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/317/7168/1309

"Evidence-based Medicine: What it is and what it isn't" by David L. Sackett, William MC Rosenberg, JA Muir Gray, R Brian Haynes, W Scott Richardson
http://www.cebm.net/ebm_is_isnt.asp

"Health Information You Can Trust" by Kathie Clark, RN, PhD
http://www.cochrane.uottawa.ca/pdf/presentations/OvarianCancer-20040429.pdf

"How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use Systematic Reviews for Decision Making" by Lisa Bero, et al.
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/1/37

"A Primer on Evidence-based Clinical Practice"
http://www.cochrane.uottawa.ca/pdf/presentations/EBCPPrimer_July_2003.pdf

"What Prevents GP's from practicing evidence-based health care?" by Eileen Wilson
http://www.menziesfoundation.org.au/conferences/ebm/ebm13wil.htm

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Books

Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Hayns
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca

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