EMB Definition below from wikipeadia - EBM is an attempt to more uniformly apply the standards of evidence gained from the scientific method, to certain aspects of medical practice. Specifically, EBM seeks to apply judgements about the inductive quality of evidence, to those aspects of medicine which depend on rational assessments of risks and benefits of treatments (including lack of treatment).
- According to the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, "Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."
- EBM recognizes that many aspects of medical care depend on individual factors such as quality and value-of-life judgements, which are only partially subject to scientific methods.
- EBM, however, seeks to clarify those parts of medical practice which are in principle subject to scientific methods, and to apply these methods to ensure the best prediction of outcomes in medical treatment, even as debate about which outcomes are desirable, continues.
The following is a series of links to website to search for evidence based medicine.
Cochrane Collaboration
Australian Centre for Evidence Based Clinical Practice - The Australian Centre for Evidence Based Clinical Practice (ACEBCP) is a resource centre for clinicians, researchers, health service managers and consumers with an interest in improving the quality and safety of health care through the application of best evidence.
- The ACEBCP is a joint initiative of Flinders Medical Centre Division of Medicine and the Flinders University Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
- Its primary aim is to facilitate best practice in health care by assisting health care professionals develop and apply the skills needed for evidence based practice (EBP).
- Links:
TRIP (Turning research into practice) - Useful search tool based on clinical questions
- The evolution of the TRIP Database has been guided by the desire to answer real clinical questions using the principles of evidence based medicine
NHS Specialist libraries
Clinical and non clinical resources within specialty themes
PUBMED - general pubmed journal search
Pubmed Clinical Queries
- Performs a specilist querie using built in flters
- The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organisation established in 2002. It is supported by the Department of Health of the Canton of Geneva, the Department of Social Affairs of the City of Geneva, the Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, and the Geneva Medical Association, and works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Comprehensive os/gynae reproductive medicine database
- GFMER is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction.
- Obstetric gynacology guidelines
The Australian Clinical Trials Registry (ACTR) - a national, online register of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia.
- The ACTR includes trials from the full spectrum of therapeutic areas trials of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.
- It has nationwide coverage all clinical trials involving Australian researchers or Australian participants.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine's aim is to improve patient care bydeveloping and promoting evidence-based health care, and to provide support and resources to anyone who wants to practice or teach EBM
Netting the Evidence Bandolier - Bandolieris designed to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not
- Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies.
- Each month PubMed and the Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in the recent past
- Centre for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai, Toronto, including packages on practising EBM
- Centres for Health Evidence, in Canada, where they have loads of EBH resources, including critical appraisal worksheets and the JAMA Guides
- CHAIN, a multidisciplinary network of people working in health and social care.
- Evidence for Policy and Practice Information (EPPI) Centre, based at the Institute of Education in London, focusing on health and education policy makers
- Berkeley Systematic Reviews Group, with training and guidelines on how to conduct systematic reviews
- HIRU - The Health Informatics Research Unit, at McMaster University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Canada, featuring a large inventory of evidence based resources and an on-line database.
- The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York
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