A Page on   Evidence-Based Medicine

Grady Branch Library and Emory Hospital Library of the Health Sciences Library, Emory University School of Medicine.

A working page for medical professionals working in the evidence-based medicine paradigm, incorporating important links and tools for locating evidence-based literature and knowledge.  Highlights: Grady EBM filters,  JAMA Rational Clinical Examination bibliographyClassic Papers on EBM bibliography.

 

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Examples

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EBM Locator  

Sites featuring EBM-oriented search engines or evidence syntheses such as evidence summaries and guidelines.

 

TRIP Database

The Cochrane Library

Guideline- Issuing Organizations

Clinical Sites,  Databases, and EBM Filters  

Sites or databases offering clinical recommendations or other information, including some evidence-based material. Also: search aids for evidence-based material in MEDLINE.

 

Grady EBM Filters - Ovid

Grady EBM Filters - PubMed

Grady EBM Filters - Google Scholar

Grady Evidence Technique

JAMA Series: The Rational Clinical Examination

General EBM Knowledge

 

Evidence-based medicine sites useful for reference, background reading, etc. 

 

Levels of Evidence Table

Scharr Netting the Evidence

EBM Working Group User Guides

Classic Papers on EBM

 

 

                     

Best Bets

Proven  approaches for finding good evidence. 

 

The Cochrane Library

Search Cochrane Systematic Reviews, DARE, Controlled Trials Register, etc.

DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness)

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Unversity of York, UK. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses extracted from MEDLINE.

Combined Cochrane Reviews (Fulltext), DARE & ACP Journal Club (Fulltext)

Emory computers or remote login only. 

PubMed Clinical Queries Database

NLM clinical subset of MEDLINE containing

randomized controlled trials, etc

TRIP Database

Excellent metasearch Engine across multiple evidence sources.  Mostly UK.

U. Texas San Antonio SUMSearch

Metasearch Engine across multiple evidence sources.

Grady EBM Filters:

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Evidence Summaries

Find your topic in a list

 

Cochrane Evidence Aid Summaries

Brief summaries of individual Cochrane Systematic Reviews.

Clinical Evidence Fulltext

BMJ product provides critical evidence review and current recommended therapies for selected topics.

PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries: Adult Treatment

PEBC Evidence-Based Reports

Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC)

ACR Appropriateness Criteria

Diagnostic Imaging Guidelines

from the American College of Radiology

EPC Evidence Reports

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

NICE

Published Technology Appraisals

National Institute for Clinical Evidence

NHS - UK 

Guideline Collections

 

National Guideline Clearinghouse

Guideline collection compiled by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

MDConsult Guideline Collection

Full text guideline collection.  Emory computers only,

 

Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2007

AccessMedicine

Clinical Guidelines

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network 

NIH Consensus Statements

U.S. National Institutes of Health

NICE

Published Clinical Guidelines

National Institute for Clinical Evidence

NHS - UK

Guideline- Issuing Organizations

Grady Branch Compilation of Professional Society, Charitable Foundation, and Government Guideline Sites.

                 

 

                     

Clinical Support Sites and Journal Series

 

UpToDate

Evidence-based online textbook. Emory computers only. 

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

National Library For Health, NHS, UK.

JAMA Series: The Rational Clinical Examination

Bibliography with fulltext links to this well-known tutorial series appearing in JAMA. 

JAMA

JAMA Series: The Rational Clinical Examination

Well-known tutorial series appearing in JAMA. 

Annals of Internal Medicine Series: In The Clinic

Bibliography with fulltext links to evidence-based comprehensive topic series.

Journal of Family Practice Series: Applied Evidence

 

Journal of Family Practice Series: POEMS

American Family Physician Series: Point-of-Care Guides

OR:  search with term:

"point of care guides"

                 
Large Medical Databases  

Grady Evidence Based Medicine Search Techniques

Ovid MEDLINE 1950-Pres.

17,000,000 article citations.

Structured search interface (Ovid Syntax Search) or rapid search algorithm (OvidSP)

PubMed

17,000,000 article citations. NLM search interface for MEDLINE and other records. Related Articles link feature very effective.

Scirus

Elsevier search engine for science / medicine articles, websites,  and conferences.

Google Scholar

Unstructured multidisciplinary search engine for scholarly journal articles featuring relevancy / click count / citation count algorithm.

Ebsco MEDLINE

   
                 

EBM Search Filters

 

 

Grady EBM Filters:

For use in :

or

  or

Evidence-based Filters for Ovid Medline

Edward G. Miner Library

Rochester School of Medicine

Rochester, NY

Table for Clinical Queries using Research Methodology
Filters

PubMed,

National Library of Medicine,

USA

Search  Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

University of York, York

Becoming ADEPT : (Applying Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis & Therapy methodological filters to retrieving the evidence)

University of Sheffield, ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research), UK

     
                 

 

                    

Levels of Evidence - EBM Clinical Trial Classification Schemes

Tables describing at a glance the hierarchies of evidence that are fundamental to the EBM concept.

Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations

CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine)

National Health Service, Oxford, UK

Levels of Evidence

Evidence Based On Call (EBOC)

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) National Health Service, Oxford, UK. Work in Progress.

Is All Evidence Created Equal: Outcome Products of Evidence-Based Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence HSTAT -

Health Services Technology Assessment Text

National Library of Medicine

Comprehensive Sites

Strong evidence-based medicine sites offering a variety of features.

Netting the Evidence

University of Sheffield, ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research), UK

Introduction to Clinical Reasoning - Evidence Based Medicine 

Medical University of South Carolina

CEBM

CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine)

National Health Service, Oxford, UK

CEBM

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)

Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) - Royal North Shore Hospital & University of Sydney (Australia)

 

EBOC Evidence- Based - On - Call

NHS

 

Tutorial Sites

How to teach and practice evidence based medicine.

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme - Finding the Evidence Workshop (CASPfew)

Learning and Development / NHS Public Health Resource Unit

Becoming ADEPT : (Applying Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis & Therapy methodological filters to retrieving the evidence)

University of Sheffield, ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research), UK

Practising EBM

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)

Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Evidence-Based Critical Care Medicine

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD  Johns Hopkins

Derek Angus MB, ChB, MPHUniversity of Pittsburgh

Users Guides

Centre for Health Evidence

Centre for Health Evidence Alberta, Canada

Bibliographies, Pathfinders, Guides, etc. 

Lists of journal articles and other resources.

EBM Bibliography

Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center

The New York Academy of Medicine Library

Classic Papers on Evidence- based Medicine  

(JAMA User Guides,  Annals of Internal Medicine systematic reviews series, etc.) Grady Branch Library, Emory U., Atlanta

Evidence Based Medicine Resources

Hardin Library

University of Iowa

Evidence Based Medicine and Health Technology Assessment

National Library of Medicine listing of web resources

Nesbit Guide to Evidence Based Resources

Edward G. Miner Library

Rochester School of Medicine

Rochester, NY

Evidence-based Practice

University of Sydney Library

Sydney, Au.

Evidence Based Medicine Subject Guide

Univerisity of New South Wales

EBM Glossaries

Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary

CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine)

National Health Service, Oxford, UK

Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence Based Medicine Glossary

College of Veterinary Medicine

Washington State Univ.

Evidence Based Medicine Glossary

Medical University of South Carolina

Glossary of EBM Terms

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)

Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Glossary of EBM terms

EBOC Evidence- Based - On - Call

NHS

 

                 

 

 

Contact: Karl Woodworth

Grady Branch Library / Emory University / Atlanta, Ga. USA

Last Update: 1/09/08