EBM Sites

Below is a list of useful web-sites relating to Evidence Based Practice. Again as with other lists on this site, it may not be complete and if there are any glaring omissions, please let the CAMRN Adminstrator know (camrn@rccm.org.uk).

Alternative Medicine Foundation
amfoundation.org/

Bandolier
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
This site is intended to gather the best evidence available about complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) for sufferers and professionals, to update it as more or better evidence becomes available, and to have it accessible over Internet. The principal mechanism will be by searching for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of complementary and alternative therapies, and providing abstracts of them. It contains stories from Bandolier, plus abstracts of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or other studies about CAT.

CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)
http://www.phru.nhs.uk/pages/phd/casp.htm
The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) is a programme within Learning & Development at the Public Health Resource Unit. Since 1993 the programme has helped to develop an evidence-based approach in health and social care, working with local, national and international groups. CASP aims to enable individuals to develop the skills to find and make sense of research evidence, helping them to put knowledge into practice.

Centre for Evidence Based Child Health
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Centre_for_evidence_based_child_health/Homepage
The ever-increasing volume and diversity of information makes it difficult for clinicians and others to keep up-to-date with the latest developments. A major challenge of the National Health Service is to ensure that clinical and other decisions relevant to the care of sick children and the prevention of illness and disability are based on the best available evidence. The Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health was set up to address this challenge through an education and research programme designed to help health practitioners acquire the necessary skills to integrate the critical analysis of evidence underpinning their day to day decisions into their practice.

Centre for Evidence Based Dentistry
www.cebd.org
The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry is a UK-based independent body who’s aim is to promote evidence-based dentistry world-wide. The website provides links to evidence-based books and journal.

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
www.cebm.net
Provides a wide range of resources, including the EBM toolbox which assists the user in asking focused clinical questions and filtering and critically appraising information.

Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health
www.cebmh.com
Centre promotes and supports evidence based mental healthcare. Site provides access to Cochrane reviews and DH reviews, as well as clinical trials.

Centre for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery
http://www.joannabriggs.tvu.ac.uk/joannabriggs/
Thames Valley University's Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery links with healthcare providers across London and the Thames Valley, which comprise some of the most diverse social and economic populations in England. The Centre has well-established links with local NHS Trusts, and works with nurses and midwives from the acute and primary healthcare sectors to develop, implement and evaluate evidence to promote, support and sustain best practice.

Clinical Evidence
www.clinicalevidence.com
Directory which is updated monthly, published by BMJ. Differentiates itself from other research reviews in that it “begins with the questions, then looks for the evidence addressing those questions”.

Cochrane Centre (UK)
www.cochrane.org
A not-for-profit organisation aiming to make up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available. See Cochrane Library below.

Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry
www.compmed.umm.edu/Cochrane/
The CM field has put a great deal of effort into laying the groundwork for conducting systematic reviews by constructing a database of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (CCTs) on CAM topics. To date, over 6500 trials have been identified through regular high yield search strategies.This link provides instructions on how to search the registry.

Cochrane Library database
www.update-software.com/Cochrane/default.htm
A regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Data from numerous small studies are often combined statistically (with meta-analysis). The website provides free access to the abstracts and full text is available through the NELH (see link below).

CRD (NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination)
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
Aims to promote research-based practice in the NHS by offering rigorous, systematic reviews on selected topics and a dissemination and information service. Includes DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects), NHS EED and Cochrane Training Guide.

Doctors Desk
drsdesk.sghms.ac.uk
Set up by the Primary Care Informatics group at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London “to look at the utility of the sources of evidence based medicine on the consulting room desk”.

Evidence Based Health Informatics
hiru.mcmaster.ca
Collaboration by the Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University, Ontario “with local and international groups to study and redress health care information problems”. Some unique projects.

Evidence-Based Medicine & EBM Online
ebm.bmjjournals.com/
Bi-monthly journal published by BMJ. Scans 130 general medical and specialist journals for the most clinically important and valid research for clinicians. There is limited access for non-subscribers, thought TOC’s and abstracts can be viewed.

Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit
www.http://www.ebm.med.ualberta.ca/
Guidelines for analysing EBM, published by the EBM Working Group.

Health Evidence Bulletins-Wales
hebw.uwcm.ac.uk
The Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales act as “signposts to the best evidence across a broad range of evidence types and subject areas. Where information from randomised controlled trials is available it is included”. The site contains a search engine for keyword searching.

Health Technology Assessments
http://www.hta.ac.uk/
The HTA programme is a national programme of research established and funded bythe Department of Health's Research and development programme. The purpose of the programme is to ensure that high quality research information on the costs, effectiveness and broader impact of health technologies is produced in the most effective way for those who use, manage and provide care inthe NHS.

Herbmed
http://www.herbmed.org/
HerbMed is an interactive, electronic herbal database provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public. On-line access is free.

How to Read a Paper (critical appraisal)
http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7104/364.extract
Full text of various articles and chapters on evaluating and approaching various kinds of research, including qualitative, statistical and economic analyses

Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice

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

Tutorials  intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice.

Knowledgeshare - NHS information support for Evidence Based Practice
www.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk
Knowledgeshare is a project designed to support the information needs of local health care professionals in the Brighton/Hayward’s Heath area. They produce a bi-monthly bulletin outlining the latest information in evidence based practice available from health care libraries in the East Sussex region, collated by the Knowledgeshare project, The Library, Sussex Postgraduate Medical Centre, Brighton.

Medline
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center
www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
This site provides objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems.

National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/default.aspx
The NeLH aims to provide health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health care related decisions. It contains information on specialist libraries and links to many evidenced-based resources on the web.

NHS Evidence - Mental Health
http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=MENTAL%20HEALTH
Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) present the highest-quality evidence on a topic which has been published in the previous 12-18 months The site has developed two main gateways linking to resources on depression and schizophrenia.

National Research Register
https://portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/NRRArchive.aspx
Database of ongoing and recently completed research projects related to the National Health Service.

NCCAM Resources for Health Care Providers

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers

An online resource,designed to give health care providers easy access to evidence-based information on
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With this new resource, providers will
have the tools necessary to learn about the various CAM practices and products and
be better able to discuss the safety and effectiveness of complementary and
alternative medicine with their patients

ScHARR - Netting the Evidence
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/
Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
www.tripdatabase.com
The TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information.The TRIP Database gives direct, hyperlinked access to a large collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from some of the major on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.