Evidence-based medicine/External Links

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• ACC.org - 'What Is Evidence-Based Medicine?' American College of Cardiology
• Bandolier - Evidence-Based Healthcare
• AHRQ.gov - 'U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)', Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
• BEEMCourse.com - 'The Best Evidence In Emergency Medicine (BEEM) Team' Group based out of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada); reviews the best emerging evidence based research in emergency medicine.
• CEBM.net - Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (UK)
• Cochrane.org - 'The Cochrane Collaboration: The reliable source for evidence in healthcare' (systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions), Cochrane Library
• EBOnCall.org - 'Evidence compendia' (evidence-based summaries of 38 on-call medical conditions), Evidence-Based On-Call (EBOC)
• Evidence-based medicine, What is ? - The What is...? series explains the concepts simply and clearly.
• GPNoteBook.co.uk - 'Evidence-based medicine (EBM)', General Practice Notebook
• JournalReview.org - 'An unbiased forum for review of the medical literature', An On-Line journal club
• medlib.bu.edu = 'Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine' Boston University Medical Center Library
• The ScHARR Guide A guide to evidence-based practice on the Internet
• TRIP Database - 'TRIP Database - EBM search engine' (resource directory), TRIP Knowledge Service
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
• Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Berkeley Systematic Reviews Group
• Clinical Evidence Compendium of clinical evidence, produced by the BMJ,
• National Health Service (UK) - Health Technology Assessment
• The James Lind Libraryformerly 'Controlled Trials from History', this is a joint project of the UK Cochrane Centre and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Society for Clinical Trials

Journal Articles on EBM

• - Straus SE, McAlister FA (2000) Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on common criticisms Canadian Medical Association Journal CMAJ.ca 163:837-41
• (editorial, 1996) Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't: It's about integrating individual clinical expertise and the best external evidence. BMJ BMJ.com 312:71-2
• BMJ.com Evidence based medicine: Socratic dissent (Education and debate) BMJ MJA.com.au 310:1126-7 (1995)
• Craig JC et al. (2001) Evidence-based medicine: useful tools for decision making Medical Journal of Australia 174:248-53
• Smith GCS, Pell JP (2003) Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials BMJ BMJ.BMJjournals.com 327:1459-61 (An entertaining study showing that situations still exist where RCTs are unnecessary.)