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FREE Evidence-Based Medicine Resources on the Web:
Bandolier
Bandolier is a print and Internet journal about health care,
using evidence-based medicine techniques to provide advice about
particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals
and consumers. Every issue is available, full text, and free of
charge on the Web.
Critically
Appraised Topics
CATs are critically appraised topics or written summaries of
focused clinical questions where the evidence has been carefully
analyzed. This site presents CATs created by the combined
Internal Medicine/Pediatric Residency and Primary Care Program in
Internal Medicine Programs of the University of Rochester Medical
Center.
For more about CATs, CATmaker, CATnipper and kittens (!) - visit this page from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, UK (http://www.minervation.com/cebm2/docs/catmaker.html).
Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is produced by the
Cochrane Collaboration - an international network of individuals
and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and
disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care.
The Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews are available without charge,
and can be browsed or searched.
Database of
Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
DARE consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from
all over the world. DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis,
prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. The full
DARE records are freely available on the Web from the NHS Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, UK.
HSTAT
HSTAT stands for Health Services/Technology Assessment Text, and
is a large searchable collection of full-text practice
guidelines, health technology assessments, and other health
information. According to its parent organization, the National
Library of Medicine, HSTAT is a free, web-based resource that
provides access to full-text documents useful for providing
health information and for health care decision making. One
time-saving feature is that a HSTAT search can also
simultaneously search PubMed, the CDC Prevention Guidelines, and
the National Guideline Clearinghouse.
National Guideline
Clearinghouse (NGC)
NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines. It is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association
and the American Association of Health Plans. It can be
simultaneously searched with the HSTAT database (see HSTAT entry
above).
National Library
of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows a simultaneous search across multiple
government information retrieval systems, such as PubMed,
ClinicalTrials.gov, and HSRProj.
PubMed
PubMed provides free Web access to biomedical and health-related
journal literature citations through the MEDLINE database and
more.
PubMed
Clinical
This specialized PubMed search is intended for clinicians and has
built-in search "filters" intended to retrieve sound clinical
studies of the etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, prevention, or
treatment of disorders in adult general medicine.
SUMSearch
A few hard-working folks from the University of Texas Health
Science Center have put this search site together to
simultaneously search multiple Web sites and collate the results
into one page. The majority of the links provided by SUMSearch
come from three Internet sites - the National Library of Medicine
(NLM), DARE, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). The
search results are presented from a broad to a narrow focus,
allowing the clinician to jump into the results at the level of
his/her knowledge.
TRIP Database
The TRIP Database began in 1997, and is a collection of titles
and hyperlinks to a variety of information sources on the Web.
Although the focus is primarily evidence-based medicine, it also
includes links to peer-reviewed journals and even the Merck
Manual! It is especially valuable for its single search
interface to over 75 different sources of information. Search
results are grouped according to whether they are evidence-based,
from query-answering services, peer-reviewed journals,
guidelines, etextbooks, etc.
One-Stop Shopping For EBM Sites:
EBM Resource Center
The EBM Resource Center was developed by The New York Academy of
Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine
Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York
Chapter. The Web Page contains references, bibliographies,
tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to guide those
embarking on teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine.
Evidence-Based
Health Care Resources on the Internet
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has compiled a categorized
list of evidence-based health care Web resources. This site
offers wonderful links under each of its categories. Categories
include search
filters, tutorials,
practice guidelines, master
lists of Web resources, journals
and organizations
involved in evidence-based health care.
Netting
the Evidence
This is a comprehensive A to Z EBM Web resource list that is
produced by Andrew Booth at the School of Health and Related
Research, University of Sheffield, England. Netting the
Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare
by providing support and access to helpful organization and
useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual
library, software and journals.
Other
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia Health System
UVa "Navigating the Maze" Web Site (Claude Moore Health Sciences Library)
Center for Information Mastery - the UVa Department of Family Medicine
Ovid Technologies
http://www.ovid.com/index.cfm
Ovid offers a subscription to a product called Evidence-Based
Medicine Reviews (EBMR). This product provides a single
search interface to the Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register,
ACP Journal Club, DARE, and Clinical
Evidence databases. Ovid's search interface allows
multi-directional links between these EBM sources, MEDLINE, and
full-text articles.
