Resources
Locating the evidence
How to construct a search to get the answers
you want
Finding
Clinical Guidelines (Websites)
Useful
EBCP Web Sites for searching for evidence
General EBCP websites
Health care guideline sites
Health care database sites
Health care journal sites
The following website links are a useful quick
reference source, they are not exhaustive.
Clicking on these links will open up a new window with the website
page on it. To return to the ACEBCP site simply close the new
window.
General EBCP web sites
Clicking on these links will open up a new window
with the website page on it. To return to the ACEBCP site simply
close the new window.
A
ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
This informative site provides up to date information on all aspects
of Evidence Based Practice. This includes searching, appraisal,
implementation and software as well as links to EBM and EBCP journals,
databases and organisations. The site also features access to
a Virtual Library providing full text EBM documents.
Australasian
Cochrane Centre - Melbourne
This portal site provides access to the Australasian Cochrane
Centre and its resources, as well as access to the International
Cochrane Collaboration home page and the Cochrane Library of systematic
reviews.
Centre
for Clinical Effectiveness
This useful site offers resources such as EBM learning resources,
and consumer health information. It also provides links to other
EBM sites, as well as services for staff from the Southern Health
Care Network, Melbourne, Australia.
Centre
for Evidence Based Physiotherapy
This page provides access to PEDro, the evidence based Physiotherapy
Database, as well as information about current evidence based
workshops and lectures run by the CEBP and related to the Physiotherapy
discipline.
Centres
for Health Evidence CHE
This helpful site is aimed at patients, practitioners and policy
makers. It provides quality online information and aids to help
assess problems, ask questions and acquire and apply knowledge
NICS - National Institute for Clinical Studies
NICS is an Australia's national agency for closing the gaps between evidence and practice in health care. It is now part of the National Health and Medical Rseaerch Council of Australia. In addition to providing valuable information about evidence in practice, grading evidence and developing clinical practice guidelines, this site also has free links to the Cochrane Library and other useful links.
Primary Health Care Research & Information Service
This on-line clearing-house provides information related to General
Practice activities in the areas of clinical practice, education
and research. The site also provides resources to support the
above activities as well as access to the NIS library, archives
and databases. A comprehensive list of current General Practice
and health related websites on the Internet is available from
the site.
Joanna
Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery
In addition to other services, this site provides free access
to Nursing and Midwifery best practice information sheets, clinical
practice manual service, systematic review information, systematic
review protocols and workshop information.
Centre
for Evidence Based Medicine - Searching for the Best Evidence
in Clinical Journals
This section is about journal searching and we start
with a reminder that there are other resources that already summarise
the results of such searches, incorporating quality filters and
critical appraisals.
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Health Care Guideline Sites
National Guideline
Clearing House
This site is a public resource for evidence based clinical practice
guidelines. It is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Research
and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association
and the American Association of Health Plans.
Joint
NHMRC/AVCC Statement & Guidelines on Research Practice (May
1977)
This site provides access to the joint NHMRC/AVCC Statement and
Guidelines as a guide to institutions developing their own procedures
and guidelines. These Guidelines are a recognised comprehensive
framework of minimum acceptable standards.
NH&MRC
- National Health and Medical Research Council
This link provides access to the NH&MRC Clinical Practice
Guidelines - Publication Catalogues 2000.
EMJA
Health Advice
Joanna
Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery
In addition to other services, this site provides free access
to Nursing and Midwifery best practice information sheets, clinical
practice manual service, systematic review information, systematic
review protocols and workshop information.
The
CDC Prevetion Guideline Database
A comprehensive compendium of all of the official CDC guidelines
and recomendations for the prevention of disease and injury.
National
Breast Cancer Centre Clinical Practice Guidelines
As part of the National Breast Cancer Centre, this link provides
access to Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of early
Breast Cancer.
Agree
Collaboration
AGREE is an international collaboration of researchers
and policy makers who seek to improve the quality and effectiveness
of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework
for their development, reporting and assessment.
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Health Care Database Sites
Trawling
the NetA ScHARR
Introduction to free Databases of Interest for NHS staff
TRIP
Database Turning Research Into Practice
Practice an excellent UK database, which accesses to many of the
leading Internet publishers of medical information (over 8000
links). Originally designed to capture only material of an evidenced
based format, it has more recently been expanded to include research
published in peer review journals. Aimed at practitioners in primary
care.
CRD
- Centre for Reviews & Dissemination Databases
These 3 excellent databases (see below,) produced by the UK NHS
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, can be searched singly or
collectively from this one site. DARE Abstracts of quality assessed
systematic reviews
NHSEED Economic evaluations of health care interventions
HTA Publications and projects by INAHTA and other HTA organisations
Cochrane
Review Abstracts
Searches & lists the abstracts of all published Cochrane
Reviews.
Herb
Med
A database produced by the US Alternative Medicine Foundation
Inc. which provides information about the evidence associated
with many of the common herbal therapies. This is a good site
for consumers and family/general physicians.
US National Library of Medicine-
Data Bases
PubMed
An excellent data base with many features. The Clinical Queries
feature is particularly useful for doing quick high yield useful
searches of the entire Medline database. It has excellent in-built
filters (such as, prognosis, diagnosis, sensitivity and specificity)
and also has a feature that allows it to retrieve related articles.
Bioethics
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides access to the
published literature on the ethical, legal and public policy issues
surrounding health care and biomedical research. This information
is provided in conjunction with the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics located at Georgetown University, Washington,
DC.
Cancer
The National Library of Medicine provides access to cancer information
in its MEDLINE®/PubMed®
database. The National Cancer
Institute (NCI) has many additional sources of information.
HIV/Aids
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides access to the
published literature on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via several resources.
Population/family
planning
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides access to population
information via several resources. Population information includes
worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related
health issues, including family planning technology and programs,
fertility, and population law and policy. The Johns Hopkins University
Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP) Population Information
Program (PIP) also provides access to population information via
their POPLINE®
database.
Clinical
Alerts & Advisories
NLM began offering clinical alert notices online in January 1991.
Clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings
from the NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly
affect morbidity and mortality.
Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have partnered
to create CAM on PubMed, a subset of NLM's PubMed. PubMed provides
access to citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life
science journals. It also includes links to many full-text articles
at journal Web sites and other related Web resources.
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Health Care Journal Sites
Free
Medical Journals.com
This site lists all free full text journals & those that are
free 6, 12 & 18 months post publication.
American
College of Physicians Journal Club
This online Journal is published bi-monthly and copyrighted by
the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal
Medicine (ACP-ASIM). It contains article reviews and commentaries
drawn from more than 100 journals. Articles featured are considered
to warrant physicians attention in order to keep pace with advances
in treatment, prevention, diagnosis, cause, prognosis or economics.
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