Core Library for Evidence Based Practice

• Evidence Based Medicine : What it is and What it isn't
• Evidence Based Medicine : A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine
• The Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence Based Care
• The Medical Review Article: State of the Science
• Coiera E. Evidence Based Medicine, the Internet and the rise of Medical Informatics. Hewlett Packard Laboratories Technical Report, 1996, No. 26.
• Haynes RB, Hayward RS, Lomas J.  Bridges between health care research evidence and clinical practice.
• Literature Searching and Evidence Interpretation [SBU]
• ScHARR Introduction to Systematic Reviews [MSWORD6 file]
• Undertaking systematic reviews of research on effectiveness : CRD Guidelines for Those Carrying Out or Commissioning Reviews (CRD Report 4)
• How to Read a Medical Journal Article, by Steve Simon.
• Users' Tips for EBM: The Well-built Clinical Question
• Overview: Information To Guide Physician Practice (AHCPR)

• Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

How to use the following types of studies:
• How to get started.
• Therapy or Prevention
• Diagnosis
• Harm
• Prognosis
• Overviews
• Decision Analyses
• Practice Guidelines
• Utilization Analyses
• Variations in Outcomes
• Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements
• A method for grading health care recommendations.
• Economic analysis
• Decide on the applicability of clinical trial results to your patient. JAMA 1998;27;279:545-9.
Basic statistics for clinicians (Canadian Medical Association Journal):
• 1.Hypothesis testing
• 2.Interpreting study results: confidence intervals
• 3.Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association
• 4.Correlation and regression

Systematic Reviews (Annals of Internal Medicine):

• Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best..., Annals Intern Med 1 Mar 97
• Systematic Reviews: Critical Links in..., Annals Intern Med 1 Mar 97
• Using Numerical Results from..., Annals Intern Med 1 May 97
• Locating and Appraising Systematic..., Annals Intern Med 1 Apr 97
• Using Systematic Reviews in Clinical..., Annals Intern Med 1 Jun 97
• How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use..., Annals Intern Med 1 Jul 97
• The Relation between Systematic Reviews..., Annals Intern Med 1 Aug 97
• Counsell C. Formulating Questions and Locating Primary Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:380-387.
• Meade MO, Richardson WS. Selecting and Appraising Studies for a Systematic Review. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:531-7.
• Quantitative synthesis....., Annals Intern Med 1 Nov 97
• Integrating heterogeneous pieces of evidence......, Annals Intern Med 1 Dec 97

How to read a paper (BMJ).

• How to read a paper : the Medline Database
• How to read a paper : Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
• How to read a paper : Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
• How to read a paper : Statistics for the non-statistician. 1: different types of data need different statistical tests.
• How to read a paper : Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
• How to read a paper : Papers that report drug trials
• How to read a paper : Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
• How to read a paper : Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
• How to read a paper : Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
• How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research).
 

Meta-analysis (BMJ)

• Meta-analysis: potential and promise. BMJ 1997;315:1371-4
• Meta-analysis: principles and procedures. BMJ 1997;315:1533-7
• Meta-analysis: beyond the grand mean? BMJ 1997;315:1610-4
• Meta-analysis: bias in location and selection of studies. BMJ 1998;316:61-6
• Meta-analysis: spurious precision? BMJ 1998;316:140-4
• Meta-analysis: unresolved issues and future developments. BMJ 1998;316:221-5

Understanding controlled trials (BMJ)

• Why are randomized controlled trials important?
• What is a patient preference trial?
• What is Zelen's design?
• Crossover trials.
• Randomising groups of patients
• What outcomes should be measured?
Getting research into practice (BMJ)
• Getting evidence into practice [Editorial].
• Making better use of research findings.
• When to act on the evidence.
• Finding information on clinical effectiveness.
• Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice.
• Using research findings in clinical practice.
• Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings.
• Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings
• Implementing research findings in developing countries.

Research Methods in Primary Care (British Journal of General Practice).

• 'The New Research' and the primary care practitioner. Br J Gen Pract 1998;
• Randomised Controlled Trials
• Meta-analysis and beyond: applying secondary research methods to primary care
• Qualitative research
• Outside the ivory towers: evidence based medicine in the real world
• Research in primary care: getting started

ACP Journal Club Editorials

• Economic evaluation of health care interventions: an economist's perspective
• Beyond ACP Journal Club: how to harness MEDLINE for review articles
• Evidence-based medicine and the Internet

EBM Notebook (Evidence Based Medicine)

• On the need for evidence-based medicine
• How members of the Cochrane Collaboration prepare and maintain systematic reviews of the effects of health care
• On the need for evidence-based general and family practice
• Use of confidence intervals to indicate uncertainty in research findings
• The need for evidence-based obstetrics
• Down with odds ratios!
• Research intelligence for policy and practice: the role of the National Health Service Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
• On the need for evidence-based psychiatry
• . . . so little time, and . . .
• Evidence-based diagnosis: More is needed
• Summarising the effects of therapy: a new table and some more terms
• Evidence-based pathology
• Using Best Evidence in clinical practice
• On some clinically useful measures of the accuracy of diagnostic tests
• Evidence-based medicine and cost-effectiveness: uneasy bedfellows?
• Applying the results of trials and systematic reviews to individual patients"

EBMH Notebook (Evidence Based Mental Health)

• Evidence-based practice in mental health
• Some useful concepts and terms used in articles about diagnosis
• Guidelines for evaluating prevalence studies
• Some useful concepts and terms used in articles about treatment
• Understanding and interpreting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Part 1: rationale, search strategy, and describing results
• Understanding and interpreting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Part 2: meta-analyses
• The contribution of reliable and clinically significant change methods to evidence-based mental health
• Why we do not abstract analogue studies of treatment outcome and scale development
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