Evidence-Based Medicine

05/08/08

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Organizations dedicated to improving health care quality and safety.
bulletAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Guidelines and Evidence Reports
bulletClinical guidelines and information from the AHRQ.
bulletBandolier
bulletEvidence-based thinking for health care professionals.
bulletCenter for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health
bulletThe Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health (CQAIMH) conducts mental health services research and provides quality management services to improve community-based care for individuals with mental health and addictions disorders
bulletCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine
bulletThe Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine was established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.
bulletCentre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
bulletPromoting and supporting the teaching and practice of evidence based mental healthcare
bulletCentre for Health Evidence
bulletThe Centre for Health Evidence promotes evidence-based health care by presenting knowledge-based resources to health professionals in ways that facilitate their optimum use.
bulletClinical Practice Guidelines from the VAMC
bulletImplementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines is one strategy VHA has embraced to improve care by reducing variation in practice and systematizing “best practices”. Guidelines, as generic tools to improve the processes of care for patient cohorts, serve to reduce errors, and provide consistent quality of care and utilization of resources throughout the system. Guidelines also are cornerstones for accountability and facilitate learning and the conduct of research. The guidelines on this site are those endorsed by VHA's National Clinical Practice Guidelines Council.
bulletClincal Resources @ Ovid
bulletClinicalResource@Ovid is an easy-to-use tool that provides one-click access to important clinical resources recommended by physicians for physicians. Whether a doctor is checking a drug interaction or wants to provide a patient with an informational handout, they can trust Ovid to provide fast, precise answers.
bulletCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
bulletA database of evidence-based studies.
bulletDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
bulletA British database of evidence-based studies.
bulletDynamed
bulletDynaMed (Dynamic Medical Information System) is a quick and easy-to-use medical reference system designed for use at the point of care. DynaMed contains clinically organized summaries of nearly 1,800 topics and is updated daily from review of the research literature.
bulletEBM Online
bulletPublished by the BMJ, data on evidence-based medicine.
bulletECRI
bulletECRI  is an independent nonprofit health services research agency and a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization. It is designated as an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Its mission is to promote the highest standards of safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness in healthcare to benefit patient care through research, publishing, education, and consultation.
bulletEvidence-based Practice Newsletter
bulletPublished by the Journal of Family Practice, evidence-based data.
bullet First Consult
bulletFIRSTConsult delivers continuously updated, evidence-based guidance on patient evaluation, diagnosis and management.
bulletInfoRetriever
bulletInfoRetriever provides clinicians with the best available evidence as they practice
bulletInstitute for Clinical Systems Improvements
bulletA collaboration of health-care organizations, dedicated to instituting evidence-based medicine.
bulletNew York Academy of Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center
bulletThis site contains references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases
bulletNIH Consensus Statements
bulletThe NIH Consensus Statements are reports evaluating state-of-the-science scientific information on a given biomedical or public health intervention
bulletThe Physicians' Information and Education Resource
bulletFind authoritative, evidence-based guidance to improve clinical care from the American College of Physicians.
bulletSAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIP) Page
bulletThe Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series are best-practice guidelines for the treatment of substance abuse. CSAT's Division of Services Improvement draws on the experience and knowledge of clinical, research, and administrative experts to produce the TIP Series, which are distributed to a growing number of facilities and individuals across the country.
bulletSum Search
bulletThis medical search engine combines meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence.
bulletTexas Implementation of Medication Algorithms / Texas Medication Algorithm Project
bulletA major effort to develop evidence-based clinical guidelines for psychiatric care.  This link is to the TIMA page for clinical use.  For research data, go to the TMAP website.
bulletTRIP
bulletThe TRIP Database was created in 1997 in an attempt to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet.
bulletUS Preventive Services Task Force
bulletRecommendations for improving health care.
bulletVanderbilt University Evidence-Based Medicine Site
bulletAn academic medical center resource for evidence-based medicine

 

Users' Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

A complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) are available on this site. The individual articles can be viewed in their entirety by clicking on their titles.

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