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"Becoming ADEPT: Applying Diagnosis Etiology Prognosis and Therapy methodological filters for retrieving the evidence" is a workshop and distance learning based programme created for South Thames Regional Library Service by Andrew Booth, Director of Information Resources, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, and designed by Andrew Booth and Alison Hicks. Materials are made available free of charge on the understanding that all subsequent reuse is non-commercial and gives due acknowledgement to the source.

A rapidly growing collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of the effects of health care, maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. New reviews are added with each issue of . Cochrane reviews are reviews mainly of randomised controlled trials. Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria to minimise bias. Data are often combined statistically, with meta-analysis, to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies each too small to produce reliable results individually. The Cochrane Library is to NHS staff, patients and the public in England through the NeLH. The Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews can be or .

The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. It is published quarterly on CD-ROM and the Internet. The Cochrane Library is to NHS staff, patients and the public in England through the NeLH.

This collaboration between the UK Cochrane Centre and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh brings together many notable studies from the histories of controlled trials. Other topics include methods for the control of selection biases and control of observer biases and there is a detailed bibliography.

The Evidence-Based Health Care Project is staffed and supported by the Bio-Medical Library and the Academic Health Center. The aim is to promote the practice of evidence-based health care throughout the Academic Health Center (AHC) at the University of Minnesota, and throughout the state. This web site provides links to local and internet resources on evidence-based health care and modules to introduce skills needed to practice evidence-based health care.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) is an electronic information resource. Available both via Ovid Online and on CD-ROM, this database from Ovid combines three EBM sources into a single, fully-searchable database with links to MEDLINE® and Ovid full text journals. Sources covered include: 1. The Cochrane Collaboration's Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2. Best Evidence, which consists of ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine from the American College of Physicians and the BMJ Publishing Group. 3. The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Service's Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD).

Filtering the Literature ScHARR
This ScHARR Compilation page lists a number of sites that use the methodological filters developed by McMaster University and others for retrieving methodologically sound articles from bibliographic databases.

Finding the Evidence ScHARR
This ScHARR Compilation page provides a list of a number of sites that give guidance on searching for the evidence.

Focusing the Question ScHARR
This ScHARR Compilation page provides a list of a number of sites that introduce the useful technique of focusing your question prior to the search for evidence.

A listing of documents about primary care medicine and medical practice, available through the World Wide Web. Some links are to the documents themselves. Others are to article reviews, plus links to the articles' abstracts, when available. The documents were selected to serve the information needs of primary care practitioners.

Searchable database of POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) from the Journal of Family Practice. POEMS are summaries similar to ACPJournal Club articles in methodology and format, targeted at family practitioners.

The James Lind Library has been launched to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of James Lind's Treatise of the Scurvy. Lind's 1753 book contains a systematic review of what had been written about scurvy showing that oranges and lemons were more effective than other treatments for scurvy. At the core of the James Lind Library are pages illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments. These pages contain examples from nearly a hundred books and journal articles, illustrated by images of the key passages of text. New records are being added continuously, as well as biographical material, portraits, translations, commentaries, and other relevant material.

Literature Searching ScHARR

An excellent Spanish-Language resource that not only contains links to other sites but includes translations of key items for Evidence Based Medicine (e.g. journal articles and the Netting the Evidence resource guide).

This site was launched a year ago for anyone with a professional or personal interest in pain and analgesia. It is firmly based in the principles of evidence-based medicine. The Oxford Pain Internet Site has pulled together systematic reviews with pain as an end point and evaluated them for quality. There is a clinical bottom line at the top for you can read in a few seconds, with a fuller précis of the review if you have the time or interest. We also give you some related references if we think they are important. As well as about 100 reviews done in detail, we provide a section on methods, and one on wisdom - how to use the knowledge sensibly. We are proud of the Oxford League Table of analgesic effectiveness, and about the attempts to extend the systematic review processes into adverse effects and clinical pharmacology.

"OT seeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions. In one database, OT seeker provides you with fast and easy access to trials from a wide range of sources."

PEDro, an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP). PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give physiotherapists and others rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help to quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.

The EPPI-Centre has compiled a register of ongoing and completed effectiveness reviews in different health promotion areas. This register currently contains over 400 ongoing and completed effectiveness reviews. All reviews have been keyworded systematically according to their health focus (e.g. mental health, sexual health, tobacco, drugs) and relevant population group (e.g. age group, gender). In addition, the reviews have been keyworded according to the methods that were used to conduct the review.

RehabTrials.org is a new web site created by the non-profit Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC) to promote, encourage, and support clinical trials in medical rehabilitation.

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This is a guide to printed sources of evidence arranged by Medical Subject Heading (MeSH). It focuses on grey literature from UK academic and quasi-governmental sources and aims to complement Michael Zack's list of Evidence-based Topics (See above). Type of resource : WWW resource list.

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This evidence seeking protocol, developed by Andrew Booth at ScHARR, outlines the stages by which evidence can be accumulated for Evidence Based digests such as those found in Journal of Clinical Excellence. ScHARR Information Resources is the majority contributor for digests published in this journal.

SUMSearch is a single gateway that attempts to provide references to answer clinical questions around diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and therapy (plus physical findings, adverse treatment effects and screening/prevention) by searching only high-quality sources. SUMSearch always searches: 1. Merck Manual. 2. MEDLINE for review articles and editorials that have full texts available. 3. National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for HealthCare Policy and Research (AHCPR) 4. Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) 5. MEDLINE for original research. Depending of the focus requested SUMSearch will search PubMed with the highest sensitivity filters developed by Haynes et al.

These pages contain materials that have been produced to support the teaching and learning of Evidence Based Practice. They were developed for use in a two day workshop that was primarily targeted at Nurses and the Professions Allied to Medicine.

TrialsCentral provides you with easy access to participating websites that list ongoing and past clinical trials. It also provides contact information for clinical trials listings that are not on the Internet. The Resources page links to health care information and support groups, literature, and other evidence-based health care sites.

This resource, hosted by the Centre for Research Support in Wales, aims to support those working in primary care. An amalgamation of 26 databases of hyperlinks from ‘Evidence-based’ sites around the world. At present there are over 10,000 links to evidence based topics and it has a simple search mechanism.

www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk

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