Evidence Based Medicine

What is Evidence Based Medicine (Practice)?

Evidence Based Medicine is "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patients." [Sackett DL, et al. Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996; 312:71-2]

What is Evidence-Based Medicine? – University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library
Evidence-based Medicine Glossary - Medical University of South Carolina
Users' Guide to the Medical Literature - American Medical Association

Evidence Based Medicine Databases

Clinical Evidence: ACP Journal Club. Summarizes best available evidence, and where there is no good evidence, it says so. Published by BMJ publishing group. Click here for Clinical Evidence.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Best Evidence.  Contains two journals ACP Journal Club (American College of Physicians) and Evidence-Based Medicine (American College of Physicians and the British Medical Journal Group). Available on OVID .

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Cochrane Database of systematic Reviews.  Includes the full text of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochane Collaboration. Available on OVID .

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: DARE. Includes full-text critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. Produced by National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York. Available on OVID .

UpToDate. A database of topic reviews by content experts. New topic reviews undergo a rigorous editorial process, which involves a review of the available evidence including consensus statements, synthesis with existing material in UpToDate, and assessment of completeness and clinical relevance. Click here for UpToDate .

Evidence Based Medicine Pyramid

Other EBM Resources:

Evidence Based Medicine Filters

Evidence-based Filters for Ovid Medline (PDF) 130KB - University of Rochester Medical Center

Evidence Based Medicine Sites

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Clinical Practice Guidelines Online
Evidence-Based Practice
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd Edition, 1996

Bandolier - EBM Journal, Oxford University

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine – Oxford, United Kingdom

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine: Appraising the Evidence - University of Toronto

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine: Critical appraisal worksheets - University of Toronto

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Search Filters - University of York

Clinical Evidence - A British Medical Journal (BMJ) Publication

ECRI Evidence-Based Practice Center - ECRI

Effective Clinical Practice - American College of Physicians

Evidence-Based Healthcare & Public Health - Elsevier

Evidence Based Medicine - University of Hertfordshire, UK

Evidence-Based Medicine - University of Massachusetts Medical School

Evidence Based Medicine - HealthWeb

Evidence-Based Medicine for Primary Care and Internal Medicine - BMJ

Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center

Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit - Canadian University of Alberta

Evidence-Based Practice Center - Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research

Evidence-Based Practice Internet Resources - McMaster University

Evidence-Based Practice - HealthLinks, University of Washington

HSTAT: Health Services/Technology Assessment Text - National Library of Medicine

Evidence Based Practice Center links - McMaster University

Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Journal Watch - New England Journal of Medicine

National Guideline Clearinghouse

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC™) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Netting the Evidence  

NICHSA Introduction of HSR Class Manual: Evaluating the Literature - National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology

Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center - Oregon Health & Science University

Prime Answers - University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries

RTI-UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center - RTI International and Unviersity of North Carolina Medical Schools

Southern California Evidence-Based Practice

Stanford-UCSF Evidence-Based Practice Center - University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University

SUMSearch - University of Texas, National Library of Medicine, DARE and the National Guideline Clearinghouse

Technology Evaluation Center - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Trip Database

User's Guides to Evidence-Based Practice - Centre for Health Evidence

Evidence Based Medicine on Wikipedia

The Evolving Role of the Librarian in Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence Based Nursing

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ Publishing Group

The Joanna Briggs Institute