Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit

Carl Heneghan, Douglas Badenoch

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780727918413
• eBook ISBN: 9781118684764
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

This bestselling pocket guide to the skills of evidence-based medicine succeeds in demystifying the terminology and processes in a handy and easy-to-follow format, all within the space of 100 pages.

With an improved layout, this second edition of Evidence-based Medicine Toolkit offers more up-to-date guidance as well as new sections on important areas of research.

New features of this second edition include:

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• A box for each major database showing how to search the evidence, and highlighting the differences between them
  
• Flow charts for different study types
  
• New critical appraisal sections on qualitative research and economic evaluation
  
• Expanded list of EBM resources on the net.

With these added features to make the job easier, the new Toolkit is now an even better companion for all health care professionals using evidence-based methodology in their research and practice.

Selected evidence-based healthcare resources on the web

For a live list of these links, go to:

http://www.minervation.com/EBMtoolkit/EBMlinks.html

Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews

http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/mainindex.htm Alphabetical list of Cochrane reviews.

Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED)

http://edina.ac.uk/cab

AMED is an abstract database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in three separate subject areas; allied to medicine, complementary medicine and palliative care. Numerous of the 512 journals included are not indexed elsewhere.

American College of Physicians

http://www.acponline.org/

ACP journal club

http://www.acpjc.org/?hp

Online version of the ACP journal.

Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation AGREE

http://www.agreecollaboration.org/

AGREE stands for ‘Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation’. It originates from an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who work together to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and assessment.

Bandolier

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier

Best Evidence

http://ebm.bmjjournals.com

BIOME

http://biome.ac.uk/

Barrier free access to peer reviewed research.

CATBank: University of Michigan

http://www.med.umich.edu/pediatrics/ebm/Cat.htm

Department of paediatrics CatBank.

CATBank: BestBETs

http://www.bestbets.org/

BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is.

CAT Crawler

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/mig/cat_search.asp

Search engine for a number of CAT sites on the net.

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

http://www.cebm.net

Centre for EBM based in Oxford with information on courses, tips, downloads, accessible power point presentations to download and more.

Centre for Evidence Based Child Health

http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Centre_for_evidence_based_child_health/

The Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health was established by Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust and the Institute of Child Health, London, in 1995 as a part of a national network of Centres for Evidence-Based Health Care. The centre’s activities build on the experience and expertise of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics and on the clinical links with Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai, Toronto, including packages on practising EBM

http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health in Oxford

http://www.cebmh.com/

Promoting and supporting the teaching and practice of evidence-based mental healthcare.

Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing in York

http://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/centres/evidence/cebn.htm The Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing CEBN) is concerned with furthering EBN through education, research and development.

Centre for Evidence-Based Social Services in Exeter

http://www.cebss.org/

A partnership between The Department of Health, a consortium of Social Services Departments in the South West of England and the University of Exeter (Peninsula Medical School). The main aim is to ensure that decisions taken at all levels in Social Services are informed by trends from good-quality research.

Centres for Health Evidence

http://www.cche.net/che/home.asp

Based in Canada, where they have loads of EBH resources, including critical appraisal worksheets and the JAMA Guides.

Clinical Evidence

http://www.clinicalevidence.org

Cochrane Library

http://www.thecochranelibrary.com

The international Cochrane Collaboration homepage

http://www.cochrane.org

COPAC

http://copac.ac.uk/

Provides free access to the online catalogues of the British Library, National Library of Scotland and 23 university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, covering the full range of health and life science subjects.

DISCERN

http://www.discern.org.uk/

A tool to evaluate clinical information publications, directed primarily to consumers of health care.

Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library

http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/welcome.htm

Tutorials on evidence-based practice for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of evidence-based medicine.

EBM Online

http://ebm.bmjjournals.com/

Evidence-based medicine surveys a wide range of international medical journals applying strict criteria for the quality and validity of research. Practising clinicians assess the clinical relevance of the best studies. The key details of these essential studies are presented in a succinct, informative abstract with an expert commentary on its clinical application.

Electronic Statistics Textbook

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Asking answerable questions
• Finding the evidence: how to get the most from your searching
• Critical appraisal of guidelines
• Appraising systematic reviews
• Appraising diagnosis articles
• Appraising articles on harm/aetiology
• Appraising prognosis studies
• Appraising therapy articles
• Appraising qualitative studies
• Appraising economic evaluations
• Applying the evidence
• Evidence-based medicine: glossary of terms
• Selected evidence-based healthcare resources on the web
• Levels of evidence
• Study designs
• Index