Evidence Based Medicine

• Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility
  Listing of evidence-based reviews and summaries from the University of Birmingham.
   
• AGREE (Apprasial of Guidelines Research and Evaluation)
  The AGREE instrument is useful for critically evaluating clinical guidelines.
   
• Cardiff University Information Services
  Offers the TRIP Plus Database which searches and links to evidence-based reviews, guidelines and peer-reviewed articles.
   
• CASP: Critical Appraisal Skills Program
  Tools developed by the Public Health Resource Unit of the NHS in Great Britain. Offers worksheets for evaluating systematic reviews, RCT, cohort, case-control, and economic studies plus diagnositic test studies and clinical prediction rule.
   
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
  Academic site that provides the ability to learn, use, and teach EBM.
   
• Cochrane Collaboration
  This collaboration provides electronic, systematic, up-to-date reviews of relevant randomized trials in health care publications.
   
• ECRI Guidelines Trust
  This site is sponsored by the former contractor for the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, ECRI Institute. An ECRI account is required to access the guidelines.
   
• National Institutes of Clinical Excellence
  Provides patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on the best uses of medications and devices.
   
• The NNT
  Physician run website reporting the number needed to treat for common interventions. Searchable by specialty, system, rating, or risk assessment.
   
• Oregon Center for Evidence Based Policy
  This center provides comprehensive reviews of comparative efficacy and safety of different medication classes. Documents are available electronically for free download/review, once the user provides basic information (name, institution).
   
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
  SIGN develops and publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
   

2021-07