Evidence-Based Medicine: More about EBM

General EBM Sites

• AHRQ Clinical Information – Includes a link to a description of the Evidence-Based Practice Initiative.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) – From the Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford.
• Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit – Based on the work of the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group.
• Evidence-Based Medicine Worksheets - Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries
• Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
• Health Information Research Unit - McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.  Some of the earliest work on EBM in North America was done at McMaster.
• MedPage Tools Guide to Biostatistics
• SRDR - Systematic Review Data Repository - An open and searchable archive of and management tool for systematic review and meta-analysis data from the AHRQ

Clinical Practice Guidelines

• CDC WONDER
• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services - 2012 online edition from the AHRQ
• HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts) – From the National Library of Medicine. Access to full-text of documents useful in health care decision making.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) – Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
• NIH Consensus Development Program Home

Grading

• GRADE Working Group
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Statistics

• Carney S, Doll H. Introduction to biostatistics: Part 1. Measurement scales and their summary statistics. ACP J Club 2005 Jul-Aug; 143 (1): A8 – A9.
• Carney S, Doll H. Introduction to biostatistics: Part 2. Measures of association as used to address therapy, harm, and etiology questions. ACP J Club 2005 Sep-Oct; 143 (2): A8 – A9.
• Doll H, Carney S. Introduction to biostatistics: Part 3. Statistical approaches to uncertainty: P values and confidence intervals unpacked. ACP J Club 2006 May-Jun; 144 (3): A8 – A9.

Study Design

• CEBM Study Design - Overview of the study design tree, also from the CEBM in Oxford
• Clinical Study Design and Methods Terminology - From Washington State University

• ASSERT: A Standard for the Scientific and Ethical Review of Trials
• CONSORT: Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials
• EQUATOR: Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of Health Research
• MOOSE: Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology
• PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
• SQUIRE: Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence
• TREND (CDC): Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs