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Evidence Based Practice
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Cochrane Library
- A Patient-Centered Approach to Grading Evidence in the Medical Literature
Evaluates the strength of a recommendation based on a body of evidence and the
quality of an individual study. NB: Includes walkovers' between the various grading
methods: BMJ, USPSTF, Cochrane, CEBM
Effective Clinical Practice: Primers from the A.C.P.-A.S.I.M.
- American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine offers
an ongoing series of evidence-based
primers on patient care, statistical analysis, and health care delivery.
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (C.T.F.P.H.C.)
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National Guideline Clearinghouse
(NGC)
- The National Guideline ClearinghouseTM
(NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC
is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership
with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health
Plans. At this posting there are over a 1,000 guidelines with more added daily.
Clinical guidelines for primary care providers, U.C.S.F.
School of Medicine
- The University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine offers a clinical
guidelines site for primary care providers. The site also includes clinical
reviews, cross-cultural health, teaching, patient information, and more links--as
well as the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature and the Rational Clinical
Exam.
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BMJ
AAFP
AFP Poems
American
College of Physicians Evidence-Based Medicine
American
College of Physicians Journal Club
BAFP
Evidence base practice monthly newsletter
Bandolier
Website in Oxford, England
Centre
for Evidence Based Medicine
Cochrane
Library, clinicially applied topics, A-Z
Framing: Here is a good
example of framing from Bandolier
Institute for Clinical
System Improvement
Making
Evidence-base Medicine Doable in Everyday Practice
Understanding the Risks of Medical Interventions: 3
simple methods
Evidence-based
Obstetrics & Gynecology: Online Journal
Health
Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 1 devoted to EBM, February 2005
Medical
Mythology versus EBM by Robert J. Flaherty, MD (WORD 61k)
Number
needed to screen (NNS) by Rembold, CM
Number
needed to treat (NNT) by Nuovo, J
NNT:
Vaginal bleeding, labor pain, and breech presentation
Pitfalls
in Disease Specific Guidelines in multiple conditions (PDF 76k)
Screening
Case Study: Breast Cancer
Screening - The Mammography Debate: Editorial
by Alfred O. Berg
Vanderbilt
Center for Evidence-based Medicine
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (A.H.R.Q.)
Web site
Site description
A.H.R.Q. includes: Clinical
Guidelines, Clinical Information, Evidence-based
Quick Menu A - Z, Preventive
Services, Research Activities, USPSTF, Web
M & M, and Womens
Health. It has many other features including Consumer
and Patient issues, Funding Opportunities,
as well as, Minority Health.
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and Gynaecologists Guidelines
Thromboprophylaxis
during pregnancy, labour and after vaginal delivery, and many
others
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Cesarean Delivery,
and many others
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Main page
- While you're reading Science, you
can search several powerful databases for similar articles in Science and in
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citations (and, in some cases, abstracts) for many publications cited only in
abbreviated form in the print version; and check out supplementary material,
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and dynamism to selected research papers.
Archived volumes of Science
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