| Preliminary resources and readings on Evidence-based
Heath Care that Cochrane Center staff have found useful
Websites
Cochrane Collaboration: http://www.cochrane.org.
(Website of the international Cochrane Collaboration; links to the
Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network.)
Centre for Health Evidence, University of Alberta:
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm.
(Contains an “EBM Toolkit” of resources related to systematic
reviews, epidemiology, and other topics.)
Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine: http://www.cebm.net.
(Includes information on levels of evidence, a glossary, and a collection
of Critically Appraised Topics.)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm.
(Includes Evidence Reports of Evidence-Based Practice Centers, institutions
funded by AHRQ to review relevant scientific literature on a variety
of topics and methodologies.)
EBM Online: http://ebm.bmjjournals.com.
(The website of Evidence-Based Medicine, a bi-monthly journal. Using
this website requires a paid subscription.)
Books
Epstein, Steven, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and
the Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1996. (AIDS activism and how the AIDS community gained influence
at NIH.)
Friedland, Daniel, Ed., Evidence-Based Medicine: A
Framework for Clinical Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. (Evidence-based
medicine in the context of clinical practice.)
Guyatt, Gordon and Rennie, Drummond, Eds. Users’
Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical
Practice. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, Chicago, IL:
AMA Press, 2002. (Grew out of a series of 25 articles published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association between 1993
and 2000.)
Sackett, David L. et al., Evidence-Based Medicine:
How to Practice and Teach EBM. New York: Churchill Livingstone,
1997. (Evidence-based medicine in the context of the study and teaching
of clinical medicine and clinical epidemiology.)
Articles
Dickersin, Kay, “Development and Implementation
of a Science Training Course for Breast Cancer Activists: Project
LEAD (Leadership, Education and Advocacy Development),” Health
Expectations 4 (2001): 213-220. (About development and implementation
of a science course for non-scientist breast cancer activists.)
Levin, Aaron, “The Cochrane Collaboration,”
Annals of Internal Medicine 135:4 (Aug. 21, 2001): 309-312. (History
of the Cochrane Collaboration.)
Mulrow, CD, “Systematic Reviews: Rationale for Systematic
Reviews,” British Medical
Journal 309 (Sept. 3, 1994): 597-99. See also Systematic Review
Series from Annals of Internal Medicine. (Why systematic reviews,
including meta-analyses, are important scientific activities.)
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Preliminary list of categories/topics to be included
in future, more comprehensive resource list:
· Educational materials about evidence-based
healthcare
· Educational materials about evidence-based healthcare aimed
specifically at consumers
· Consumer advocacy in general
· Consumer advocacy in healthcare and on specific healthcare
issues
· Evidence-based healthcare and medical practice
· Evidence-based healthcare and the Internet
· Healthcare research institutions
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