Evidence-Based Health Care

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine The Centre has been established in Oxford as the first of several centers around the country whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.   They're in collaboration with the Cochrane group.   This is a very good 'one-stop' shop and a nice starting point for all of us who are new to this subject.   Full-text of the article, "Evidence-Based Medicine: What it is and what it isn't" is available. The Cochrane Library -UCSD restricted Includes databases of - Systematic Reviews of the medical literature (over 400 currently available) - Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness from the ACP Journal Club and other sources These provide analyses of the effectiveness of specific medical interventions. The Cochrane Library is one of the premier tools for practitioners of Evidence-Based Health Care. Please click the Exit button at the top of the Cochrane Library screen when you are finished. We can only have a small number of simultaneous users. Evidence-Based Medicine: McMaster University This site is maintained by the Evidence Based Informatics Project, a subgroup of the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group at McMaster University in Canada. It uses a system called HIREx to run the Infoward Resource Executive, a java scripted database and document management program. Select "Inventory" from the left sidebar, this selection starts the Infoward program then use the tabs at the top of the event screen. Bandolier Bandolier is produced monthly in Oxford for the NHS R&D Directorate. It contains bullet points (hence Bandolier) of evidence-based medicine. The executive editor is Andrew Moore, with Henry McQuay and Muir Gray. Internet access is currently free. However, subscription to the printed version of Bandolier costs £36 per year (UK) and £72 overseas (subscriptions and back numbers).