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Library

This Virtual Library has been put together by assembling links to full text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice. Further suggestions are most welcome.

• Evidence Based Medicine: What it is and What it isn't
• 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.
• Literature Searching and Evidence Interpretation (SBU)
• ScHARR Introduction to Systematic Reviews  ScHARR 
• 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.
• Overview: Information To Guide Physician Practice (AHCPR)

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature (cche.net version of JAMA articles)
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp

Guides to using articles on the following subjects:

• Getting started
• Therapy or Prevention
• Diagnosis
• Harm
• Prognosis
• Overviews
• Decision Analyses
• Practice Guidelines
• Utilization Analyses
• Variations in Outcomes
• Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements
• Economic analysis
• A method for grading health care recommendations
• Decide on the applicability of clinical trial results to your patient
• Disease Probability for Different Diagnosis

Systematic Reviews (Annals of Internal Medicine)

• Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best Evidence for Clinical Decisions (Annals Intern Med 1 Mar 97)
• Systematic Reviews: Critical Links in the Great Chain of Evidence (Annals Intern Med 1 Mar 97)
• Using Numerical Results from Systematic Reviews in Clinical Practice (Annals Intern Med 1 May 97)
• Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews (Annals Intern Med 1 Apr 97)
• Using Systematic Reviews in Clinical Education (Annals Intern Med 1 Jun 97)
• How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use Systematic reviews for Decision Making (Annals Intern Med 1 Jul 97)
• The Relation between Systematic Reviews and Practice Guidelines (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 in Systematic Reviews (Annals Intern Med 1 Nov 97)
• Integrating heterogeneous pieces of evidence in Systematic Reviews (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 [subscription required]

• 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

Last updated March 2004