Research by Subject: Evidence-Based Practice
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MEDLINE (ScienceDirect) 
Medical info from the National Library of Medicine: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc.
Note: Also available via EBSCO and PubMed; this version integrated with ScienceDirect.
Bandolier 
An online journal with information about evidence of effectiveness. The information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized trials, and from high quality observational studies.
Clinical Trials (NIH)
Provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
MedlinePlus
Government website with information on health topics, interactive tutorials, drug and supplement information, and clinical trials. Includes a medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, and medical directories.
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
CCTR is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. CCTR includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases.
Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness
Abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, critically analyzed; in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
Information Mastery Practicum & Course (University of Virginia Health System)
Online practicum and course on Information Mastery, a methodology for providing clinicians with the best possible information available at the \"point-of-care\" to assist in caring for their patients. Course includes modules about \"Evaluating Information About Therapies\" and \"Evaluating Information About Diagnostic Tests and Clinical Decision Rules\".
PrimeAnswers
Website includes a search across 800 diagnosis & therapy summaries and prediction rules.
Centre for Health Evidence
A series of user-based guides to evidence-based practice.
Society for Clinical Trials
An international professional organization promoting development and dissemination of knowledge about the design and conduct of clinical trials and related healthcare research methodology.
Cochrane database of systematic reviews
Reviews of evidence-based health care treatment studies.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Website includes teaching materials and analytical tools (pre-test probability, likelihood ratios, levels of evidence)for appraising evidence related to clinical care decisions.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
An agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, provides clinical information, funding sources, research, and statistical information. Topics covered include evidence-based practice and outcomes & effectiveness.
BestBETs.org
An evidence based medicine database. Includes answers to clinical questions on the basis of best evidence from searched literature. Each BET features clinical scenario, structured answerable question, search strategy, found studies and conclusions derived from the found evidence.
Cochrane databases
Evidence-based medicine database of peer-reviewed meta-analyses of published clinical trials, comprised of several different databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) and Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.
Note: Search all three at once from this link.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Contains abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physical therapy. Most trials have been rated for quality.
PubMed Clinical Queries
Targeted search finds citations for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, and guidelines.
TRIP Database
Database for health professionals to identify quality material on the web that supports evidence-based practice.
Basic Statistics for Clinicians (CMAJ 1995)
A series of articles on basic statistics for clinicians: Hypothesis testing, Interpreting study results: confidence intervals, Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association, Correlation and regression.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
A public repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
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