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.
- National
Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) - An initiative of the AHRQ, it is
a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
- National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) - Sponsored by the AHRQ, it is a public repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
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 Health Care of The New York Academy of Medicine - 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.
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine - a collection of resources on Evidence-Based Medicine that helps understand the philosophy.
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.
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
Gorman, Christine. Are Doctors Just Playing Hunches? Time Magazine, February 15, 2007
Green, Michael L. Evidence-based medicine training in graduate
medical education: past, present and future. Journal of Evaluation in
Clinical Practice, 6:2, May 2000. [full-text available to
subscribers to the online
journal]
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 13:4, August
2007. This issue is "the 10th Thematic Edition charting the
evolution and development of the evidence-based healthcare debate"
[full-text available to subscribers to the online
journal]
Dixon-Woods, Mary, Agarwal, Shona, Young, Bridget, Jones, David,
Sutton, Alex. Integrative Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence.
Health Development Agency (HDA), 2004
Shortell, Stephen M. , Rundall, Thomas G. , & Hsu, John. Improving Patient
Care by Linking Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence Based Management 
.
[forthcoming in JAMA]
White, Brandi. Making
Evidence-Based Medicine Doable in Everyday Practice. Family
Practice Management, 11:2, February 2004
Wyer, Peter C., et. al. Tips for Learning and Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine. CMAJ, 171:4, August 17, 2004
Books
Jordan, Jochen, Bardé, Benjamin, &
Zeiher, Andreas Michael, (Eds.). Contributions
Toward Evidence-Based Psychocardiology: A Systematic Review of
the Literature. American Psychological Association, 2006.
Buy
or view TOC at APA site
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it at Amazon
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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it at Amazon
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.
Find
it at Amazon
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
Bandolier - an independent U.K. journal about evidence-based healthcare.
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Oxford University Press.
Evidence-Based
Medicine. Produced by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd of the BMA,
assisted by Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Evidence-Based
Mental Health. Produced by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd of the
BMA, assisted by Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Evidence-Based
Nursing. Produced by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd of the BMA,
assisted by Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Evidence-based
Obstetrics & Gynecology. Elsevier, Inc.
Evidence-Based
Oncology. Elsevier, Inc.
International
Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare. Blackwell Publishing.
Journal
of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Blackwell Publishing.
Journal
of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. Elsevier, Inc.
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. Blackwell Publishing.
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