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Resources ~ Online Journals, etc. ~ Resources
~ Clinical practice guidelines ~ Clinical Prediction Rules ~ Critically
Appraised Topics ~ Tools ~ Tutorials ~ Directories ~ Formulating the Clinical
Question ~ Clinical Skills ~ Teaching Tips ~ Undergraduate EBM Resources
Sites by Specialty: Emergency Medicine ~ Family Medicine ~ Gastroenterology ~
Internal Medicine ~ Pediatrics ~ Surgery ~ Español
~ PDA Resources
Most of the following resources are free. $$ indicates that an individual or institutional license are required. For off campus access login to LibAccess
Haynes R.B. (2007). Of studies, summaries, synopses, and systems: the "5S" evolution of information services for evidence-based healthcare decisions. Evidence-Based Nursing, 10, 6-7.
Tips for searching for the evidence
"This is a web site designed to provide quality research evidence to public health decision makers, saving you time by searching, screening, and rating the systematic review evidence to compile it in a free, searchable online registry."
"CATmaker is a software tool which helps you create Critically Appraised Topics, or CATs, for the key articles you encounter about Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Aetiology/Harm and Systematic Reviews of Therapy."
Emergency Medicine:
- Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine
- Emory University, Emergency-Medicine-Ambulatory Care, Evidence Based Medicine
- BestBETS: Best Evidence Topics (Emergency medicine EBM at its best)
- Emergency Medical Abstracts $$ (not available through McMaster)
- BMC Emergency Medicine
- BEEM: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine - BEEM Course
Family Medicine:
- Essential Evidence Plus $$
- American Family Physician
- Australian Family Physician
- BMC Family Practice
- Primary Care Electronic Library
- familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Gastroenterology:
- Evidence-Based Gastroenterology $$
- Syllabi for Practising EBM: Evidence-based Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Toronto)
- BMC Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine:
- ACP Journal Club
- Through the American College of Physicians (available to ACP members)
- ACP's PIER: the Physicians' Information and Education Resource $$
- Harrison's Online $$
Pediatrics:
- Cochrane Neonatal Systematic Reviews
- Evidence-Based Pediatrics Web Site (University of Michigan)
- Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statements
- Merck Manual: Pediatrics
- BMC Pediatrics
- Virtual Pediatric Hospital
- Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal
Surgery:
- Evidence-based Surgery (SOURCE: Surgical Outcomes Research Centre):
Incudes the Evidence-Based Surgery articles from the Canadian Journal of Surgery
Español:
- Unidad de Medicina Basada en Evidencia (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
- Buscar en MEDLINE con PubMed (guía de uso)
- Búsqueda mejorada en PubMed
- MEDLINEplus
- Bandolera
- Atrapando la evidencia: Una introducción de la ScHARR a la práctica basada en la evidencia en Internet
Workshop Participant Sites (2007)
Workshop Participant Sites (2006)
Workshop Participant Sites (2005)
Workshop Participant Sites (2004)
Workshop Participant Sites (2001)