EC EBM resources

External Links

Turning Research Into Practice

The TRIP Database is the Internet's leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine. Allowing users to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care

Critical Appraisal

1. Case control study
2. Cohort study
3. Diagnostic test Study
4. Economic Evaluation Study
5. Qualitative Research
6. Randomized Controlled Trial
7. Systematic Reviews

EBM Toolkit

This is a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. The appraisal tools are adapted from the Users' Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA

Grading quality of evidence

Clinical guidelines are only as good as the evidence and judgments they are based on. The GRADE approach aims to make it easier for users to assess the judgments behind recommendations

 

Resources

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - the official guide to producing Cochrane reviews. Browse the Handbook online (Version 5.0.0, updated February 2008)

The Cochrane Collaboration Glossary : Version 4.2.5, May 2005 [PDF] 383KB

Open Learning Materials - learn the steps in convenient online modules which supplement the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions in helping you gain skills and complete your systematic review and meta-analysis.