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Other Evidence-Based Movements

The idea of Evidence-Based Management (EBM) was originally inspired by the movement of Evidence-Based Medicine.  That movement has encouraged the growth of evidence-based movements in different fields.  Notable ones are listed on this page, together with some relevant articles or Websites.  Professors Pfeffer and Sutton welcome your comments, and will be happy to learn about "E-B" movements with which you are involved.
 

Evidence-Based Conservation

Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation - Established in 2003 at the University of Birmingham. The objective of the CEBC is to conduct and widely disseminate systematic reviews of evidence pertaining to questions identified by decision-makers in the conservation and environmental sectors, following a methodology modified from that established in the field of health care research and practice.

Conservationevidende.com - This website collates information on the effectiveness of conservation practice. It includes hundreds of case studies on a range of subjects including habitat restoration, invasive species management, reintroduction, species management and habitat management.

Evidence-Based Conservation. Conservation Finance [blog]. June 15, 2006

Mathevet, Raphaël & Mauchamp, André. Evidence-based conservation: dealing with social issues. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 20, Issue 8, August 2005, pp. 422-423 [full-text available to subscribers to ScienceDirect]

Sutherland, William, Pullin, Andrew S., Dolman, Paul M. and Knight, Teri M. Response to Mathevet and Mauchamp: Evidence-based conservation: dealing with social issues. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2005, pp. 424-425 [full-text available to subscribers to ScienceDirect]
 

Pullin, Andrew S., Knight, Teri M., Stone, David A. and Charman, Kevin. Do conservation managers use scientific evidence to support their decision making? Biological Conservation, 119:2, September 2004, pp. 245-252 [full-text available to subscribers to ScienceDirect]

Sutherland, William. Evidence-Based Conservation. Conservation In Practice. 4:3, Summer 2003.

Sutherland, William, Pullin, Andrew S., Dolman, Paul M. and Knight, Teri M. The need for evidence-based conservation, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19, 2004, pp. 305–308. [full-text available to subscribers to ScienceDirect]

  

Evidence-Based Criminology

Boyle, Patrick. Curfews and Crime: If research says they don't work, why do communities keep adopting them? Youth Today. Nov. 2006

The Campbell Collaboration: Crime and Justice Group - Named after the late social psychologist Donald Campbell who was interested in encouraging experimentation and evidence-based social policy, the organization aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. Its Crime & Justice Coordinating Group is an international network of researchers that prepares, updates, and rapidly disseminates systematic reviews of high-quality research conducted worldwide on effective methods to reduce crime and delinquency and improve the quality of justice.

Carey Guides - These Guides are designed to provide officers and their supervisors with 15-minute tools on how to address criminogenic needs and do effective case management.

Chapman, Tim & Hough, Michael. (Furniss, M. Jane, Ed.) Evidence Based Practice: a Guide to Effective Practice . HM Inspectorate of Probation (UK). July 31, 1998

CRIM 634 Evidence-Based Crime Prevention (Fall Semester, 2005) - a required course for M.S. or M.A. in Criminology, Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania

Domurad, Frank. Doing Evidence-Based Practices Ain't for Sissies Community Corrections Report, 12:4, May/June 2005, pp. 49-50; 61-63

Domurad, Frank. Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: The Ethical Imperative of Evidence-Based Practices . Community Corrections Report, 13:1, November/December 2005, pp. 1-2; 9-12

Domurad, Frank. Mirror Mirror on the Wall. Originally appeared in Community Corrections Report, Vol. 15, No. 3 (March/April 2008), pp. 33-34; 39-40; 42; 46-47

Domurad, Frank. Role of Evidence-Based Management and Supervision in Camp Redesign . The Carey Group, Inc. August 8, 2007

Domurad, Frank. Role of Evidence-Based Management and Supervision in Camp Redesign: Participants Manual . The Carey Group, Inc. August 21, 2007

" We recently received some excellent material on implementing evidence-based practices and changing behavior in criminology from Frank Domurad. The exercises described in the Participants' Manual could be readily adopted for other settings and issues, and is extremely useful for helping people develop evidence-based practice. The Carey Group has begun developing short summaries of research relevant to criminology policy and practice. Once again, this would be a wonderful model for other domains, including evidence-based management. " (Jeffrey Pfeffer)

EPPI Centre - Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.

Evidence-Based Planning and Needs Analysis. Crime Prevention Division, New South Wales Attorney General's Department, Australia.

Paciotti, Brian. Evidence-Based Corrections and the Hotel California. Evidence-basedmanagement.com. Posted on July 17, 2007

Sherman, Lawrence W. Evidence-Based Policing . Ideas in American Policing. Police Foundation. July 1998.

Tilley, Nick. Realistic Evaluation: An Overview . Presented at the Founding Conference of the Danish Evaluation Society, September 2000

"a newly uncovered, very interesting and relevant, article about evaluating interventions, with particular relevance to social policy in general and criminology in particular." (Jeff Pfeffer)

Tilley, Nick & Laycock, Gloria. Working Out What to Do: Evidence-Based Crime Reduction. Crime Reduction Research Series no. 11. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, UK, 2002

Book:
Sherman, Lawrence W., Farrington, David P., MacKenzie, Doris Layton, Welsh, Brandon C. (Eds.). Evidence-based crime prevention. Rev. ed. London: Routledge, 2006. 
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Evidence-Based Education

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 6:1, March 2007. (see editor's preface: Ashkanasy, Neal M. Evidence-Based Inquiry, Learning, and Education: What Are the Pros and Cons?) [full-text of the issue is available to subscribers to EBSCO's Business Source Complete database]

The Campbell Collaboration: Education Coordinating Group - Named after the late social psychologist Donald Campbell who was interested in encouraging experimentation and evidence-based social policy, the organization aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. Its Education Coordinating Group is an international network of volunteer professionals who will prepare, update and rapidly disseminate systematic reviews of high-quality educational and training interventions conducted worldwide that are aimed to improve education and learning.

EPPI Centre - Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.

Evidence-Based Education Help Desk - Established by the What Works Clearinghouse of the U.S. Education Department, this site's mission is to provide federal, state, and local education officials, researchers, program providers, and educators with practical, easy-to-use tools to (i) advance rigorous evaluations of educational interventions, i.e., programs, products, practices, and policies, and (ii) identify and implement evidence-based interventions.

Rigorous Evidence: The Key to Progress in Education? Lessons from Medicine, Welfare, and Other Fields. The Council for Excellence in Government. Policy Forum, November 18, 2002

Research Network on Teaching & Learning - The Network was formed to identify strategies for creating a stronger relationship between knowledge of successful educational practices and what actually takes place in schools. The Network examines barriers to the implementation of evidence-based policies and practices in educational settings, and it experiments with promising strategies for links between research and practice.

Stanovich, Paula J. & Stanovich, Keith E. Using Research and Reason in Education: How Teachers Can Use Scientifically Based Research To Make Curricular & Instructional Decisions. National Institute for Literacy, May 2003. 

Book:
Thomas, Gary & Pring, Richard, (Eds.). Evidence-Based Practice in Education. 1st ed. Open University Press, 2004.
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Evidence-Based Government and Public Policies

Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy - It is sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government, with the mission to promote government policymaking based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness.

Davies, Philip. Is Evidence-Based Government Possible? Jerry Lee Lecture 2004

EPPI Centre - Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.

Evidence Network - based in the School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, it is an initiative of the Economic and Social Research Council UK Centre for evidence based policy and practice.

GAFL735 Evidence-Based Government - a course taught by Dr. Jeffrey A. Roth at Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania. 

INSPIRE, July 2006 - by Queensland Government, Australia. This issue focuses on Evidence Management – what is it and how do you use it.

Kaufman, Daniel. On Evidence-based Rethinking of Governance and Challenging Orthodoxy. World Bank, 2003. Presentation by Daniel Kaufman at USAID, Washington, DC on the key issues and challenges in governance and anti-corruption programs at the World Bank

Research to Support Evidence-Based Management. Center for Organization, Leadership, & Management Research, Department of Veterans Affairs.  An interesting article from Veterans Affairs on what differs between research and managerial contexts, and how to present research to managers so that it is really used.

Tilley, Nick. Realistic Evaluation: An Overview . Presented at the Founding Conference of the Danish Evaluation Society, September 2000

"a newly uncovered, very interesting and relevant, article about evaluating interventions, with particular relevance to social policy in general and criminology in particular." (Jeff Pfeffer)

UK Policy Hub: Evidence Hotlinks - 'Good quality policy making depends on high quality information, derived from a number of sources - expert knowledge; existing domestic and international research; existing statistics; stakeholder consultation; evaluation of previous policies; new research, if appropriate; or secondary resources, including the internet'.

  • Evidence Based Policy Centres - Evidence based policy centres are academic centres that support evidence based policymaking by co-ordinating and undertaking systematic reviews of evidence on social and economic issues.
Books:
Davies, Huw T.O., Nutley, Sandra M., Smith, Peter C., (Eds.) 
What works? Evidence based policy and practice in public services

Policy Press, 2000.
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Pawson, Ray. Evidence-Based Policy: A Realist Perspective
Sage Publications, 2006.
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Evidence-Based Librarianship

4th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference, May 4-11, 2007. Full papers available online.

Bayley, Liz & McKibbon, Ann. Evidence-based librarianship: a personal perspective from the medical/nursing realm. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 317-323 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Booth, Andrew. Clear and present questions: formulating questions for evidence based practice. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 355-368 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Eldredge, Jonathan. Evidence-based librarianship: the EBL process. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 341-354 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Given, Lisa. Article Title: Qualitative research in evidence-based practice: a valuable partnership. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 376-386. [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Glynn, Lindsay. A critical appraisal tool for library and information research. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 387-399 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Koufogiannakis, Denise & Crumley, Ellen. Research in librarianship: issues to consider. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 324-340 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

Partridge, Helen & Hallam, Gillian. Educating the Millennial Generation for evidence based information practice. Library Hi Tech, 24:3, 2006, pp. 400-419 [full-text available to subscribers to Emerald eJournals]

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Evidence-Based Medicine

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The purpose of this Center is to advance cutting edge, state-of-the-art evidence-based nursing practice, research, and education within an interdisciplinary context. 

AHRQ's Evidence-Based Practice Program - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. The site includes reports, as well as a directory of AHRQ funded Evidence-based Practice Centers in the U.S.

Armenian Medical Association's Evidence-Based Library - Armenian Medical Association promotes ideas and principles of evidence-based medicine in Armenia.  Established in 2003, its EB library has a modest collection of high-quality, evidence-based publications and software in various subjects of clinical medicine, research and public health.

BestBETs - BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. Taking into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, BETs allow physicians to make the best of what there is.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Technology Evaluation Center - The Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) creates nationally respected evidence-based assessments of medical technologies.

California Technology Assessment Forum - a public service forum providing credible, evidence-based information about new and emerging medical technologies.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University - Established in Oxford as the first of several centers 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.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Toronto - The goal of this site is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach E-BM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education.  It also serves as a support for the book, Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou, and R. Brian Haynes. 

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health (CEBMH) - established by Professor John Geddes, in Oxford, as a part of a national network of Centres for Evidence-Based Health Care.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) - Established in January 1994, the Centre aims to provide research-based information about the effects of interventions used in health and social care. It helps to promote the use of research-based knowledge by offering rigorous and systematic reviews of research on selected topics, providing access to three databases: DARE, NHS EED and the HTA database, etc.

Clinical Evidence -  from the BMJ Publishing Group. It is a directory of available evidence for effective health care.

The Cochrane Collaboration - Founded in 1993 and named for the British epidemiologist, Archie Cochrane, the organization is dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.

  • The Cochrane Library - Contains reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, etc. Cochrane reviews provide the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based healthcare.

ECRI Institute - Established in 1968, ECRI Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best. It has been designated an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The Institute's technology assessments and evidence reports are based on exhaustive searches and analyses of the medical literature.

We are one of only a handful of organizations designated as both a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and an Evidence-Based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
 

EPOCare Project: Bringing Evidence to the Point of Care - Led by Dr. Sharon Straus at the University of Toronto, the researchers in the project propose to fill the gap between the knowledge needs of the clinicians and the best evidence available in the clinical literature. They provide wireless mobile computers packaged with appropriate evidence resources to family physicians and general internists in order to determine if these devices can improve patient care and prescribing practices both in the clinics and at the bedside.

EPPI Centre - Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.

Evidence-Based - from National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, U.K.

Evidence-Based Dentistry - The American Dental Association. Provides links to resources for dental professionals.

Evidence-Based Dentistry - The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, established in 1995, is an independent body whose aim is to promote the teaching, learning, practice and evaluation of evidence-based dentistry world-wide.

Evidence Based Health Care Project - staffed and supported by the Bio-Medical Library and the Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota. The aim is to promote the practice of evidence-based health care throughout the Academic Health Center at the University, and throughout the state. 

Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center - jointed developed by The New York Academy of Medicine and the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter. The site contains references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to guide those embarking on teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-Based Pediatrics - Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Michigan.

Evidence-Based Practice - Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Evidence-Based Practice - Health Sciences & Human Services Library, University of Maryland. The site contains links to both general and specific websites devoted to evidence-based healthcare.

Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) - Established in 1996, JBI is a growing, dynamic international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers across 40 countries in every continent. An initiative of Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, JBI is an operational unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital (the University's major teaching hospital) and the University of Adelaide.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - In U.K., NICE is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. NICE guidance aims to ensure that the promotion of good health and patient care in local health communities is in line with the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness.

Netting The Evidence - School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. The site is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.

OpenClinical: Evidence-Based Medicine - OpenClinical is a non-profit organization created and maintained as a public service with support from Cancer Research UK under the overall supervision of an international technical advisory board.

Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) - An initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP), University of Sydney, PEDro has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

Stanford University/University of California, San Francisco Evidence-based Practice Center - This Center provides an infrastructure and focal point for conducting high-quality systematic literature reviews, supplemental syntheses and technology assessments, and generating evidence reports from these efforts.

Therapeutics Initiative: Evidence-Based Drug Therapy - established in 1994 by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in cooperation with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, the Initiative provides physicians and pharmacists with up to date, evidence based, practical information on rational drug therapy. 

User Guides' to Evidence-Based Practice - The complete set of Users' Guides, originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Articles
Books
Jordan, Jochen, Bardé, Benjamin, & Zeiher, Andreas Michael, (Eds.). Contributions Toward Evidence-Based Psychocardiology: A Systematic Review of the Literature. American Psychological Association, 2006.
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Haynes, R. Brian, Sackett, David L., Guyatt, Gordon H., Tugwell, Peter.  Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research. 3rd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
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Straus, Sharon E., Richardson, W. Scott, Glasziou, Paul, and Haynes, R. Brian.  Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. 3rd. ed.  Churchill Livingstone, 2005.
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Transformational Leadership and Evidence-Based Management (Chapter 4)
In: Page, Ann (Ed.). Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses.  Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2004. 
 
Journals

   

Evidence-Based Social Work

The Campbell Collaboration: Social Welfare Group - Named after the late social psychologist Donald Campbell who was interested in encouraging experimentation and evidence-based social policy, the organization aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. Its Social Welfare Coordinating Group (SWCG) is an international network of people interested in the effects of social programs. They prepare, update, and disseminate high-quality systematic reviews of research conducted worldwide on effective methods to promote social welfare, health, and social justice.

EPPI Centre - Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.

Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work - a resource guide prepared by the Social Work Library, University of Michigan

Evidence Based Social Work Masters Programmes, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford

Research in Practice for Adults - a research utilization organization for adult social care in U.K. The organization has been established following a request from a network of local service agencies who wish to replicate, in adult social care, the services currently provided by research in practice in the child and family field.

The Research Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work, University of Toronto - The Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work is building a bridge between social work research and the communities it serves. The aim is to make research knowledge accessible to practitioners and policy makers in order to ensure that consumers of social work services and programs obtain services that are best suited to meet their needs.

Books:
O'Hare, Thomas. Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Lyceum Books, 2005.
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Roberts, Albert R. & Yeager, Kenneth R., (Eds.).  Foundations of Evidence-Based Social Work Practice. Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Smith, David, (Ed.). Social Work And Evidence-based Practice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
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Evidence-Based Software Engineering

Dybå, Tore. Evidence-Based Software Engineering: a Paradigm for the Future. JavaZone, September 15, 2005

Dybå, Tore, Kitchenham, Barbara A. & Jørgensen, Magne. Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners. IEEE Software, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 58-65, Jan/Feb, 2005 [full-text available to subscribers]

Jørgensen, Magne, Kitchenham, Barbara A., & Dybå. Teaching Evidence-Based Software Engineering to University Students. In 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium, Como, Italy, September 19-22, 2005

 

Evidence-Based Sports

APBRmetrics - a forum for discussion of statistical analysis of basketball.

Association for Professional Basketball Research (APBR) - Founded by Robert Bradley, its objectives are (1) To promote interest in the history of professional basketball; (2) To correct historical inaccuracies and uncover missing information; (3) To provide a central library and database of books, historical facts and statistics for researchers, authors and fans; (4) To promote awareness of extinct basketball leagues and their teams, players, coaches and executives.

The Hot Hand in Sports - Professor Alan Reifman's blog on the study of sports streakiness.  Includes links to other sports statistics researchers and websites.

Sabermetric Research - Phil Birnbaum's blog. Includes links to and reviews of sabermetric studies and sports research.

Sabernomics: Economic thinking about baseball - Professor J.C. Bradbury's blog on baseball economics.

The Sports Economist: Economic Commentary on Sports & Society- a blog intended to be a depository of economic thinking on issues in sport, and to a lesser extent, economics in general.