Evidence Based Medicine

Why use evidence based medicine information?

A good place to start to find anything is the

Centre for Evidence based medicine website. It includes learning EBM, teaching EBM, teaching EBM and an EBM toolbox:
http://www.cebm.net/index.asp

EBM journal on line:
http://ebm.bmj.com/

NHS Evidence (from NICE) provides access to a wide range of health information to help them deliver quality patient care http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/default.aspx

Bandolier:
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

National Library for Health:
http://www.library.nhs.uk/

The TRIP Database allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from a wide range of sources, it can also record your searches for your educational portfolio:
http://www.tripdatabase.com

POEMS Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters:
http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/education/poems/POEMs.asp

Essential Evidence Plus and Infopoems
A database system of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information. InfoRetriever searches a full spectrum of evidence-based content and tools: all POEMs and Cochrane Systematic Review abstracts, more than 200 decision support tools, more than 2,200 diagnostic calculators supporting selection and interpretation of diagnostic tests and the H&P, over 700 summaries of evidence-based practice guidelines. Plus, the full 5-Minute Clinical Consult, and more. http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/

The Primary Care Question answering service
This was provided by National Library for Health. Although the English NHS has discontinued funding, you can still questions to the Welsh NHS http://www.attract.wales.nhs.uk/ or view the questions already answered.

NHS Athens accounts
Athens is the access management system developed for controlling access to web based subscription services and supplier sites; the service is free to NHS employees.
Login at https://auth.athensams.net/my/
All applicants for NHS Athens accounts need to complete the online form at https://register.athensams.net/nhs/
The only difference between registrations from home and registrations from NHS PCs is that home registrations take longer to validate.

UpToDate A US based subscription PDA and online source of information http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html

Dynamed A US based subscription PDA and online source of information http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/default.php

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