Glossaries and Health Care Statistics Terminology Resources

Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary (from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
Evidence-Based Medicine Toolbox (from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
Including information/examples on
Tips for learners of evidence based medicine: Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat
Clinical Epidemiology Glossary
This is part of the "Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit".
More clinical epidemiology definitions
These come from the "User's Guides to the Medical Literature"
Another option:
If these do not provide sufficient definitions for your use, do a Google search on the term of interest and the abbreviation. (e.g. "relative risk reduction RRR")

Last updated June 2011