Implementing the Evidence

Bedside Diagnosis

An Annotated Bibliography of Literature on Physical Examination and Interviewing made available on the American College of Physicians' site. This resource has a searchable index complete with bibliographical references.

Clinical Decision Rules

From the Mount Sinai Medical Centre

Clinical Examination Research Interest Group

A special interest group of the Society for General Internal Medicine this group is responsible for the set of Rational Clinical Examination Guides published in JAMA between 1992-1999. A full bibliography of the articles is given together with a search engine covering PubMed and Bedside Diagnosis.

CMA Infobase - Clinical Practice Guidelines

The clinical practice guidelines in this Canadian Medical Association collection were produced or endorsed by a national,provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel. This new product is being developed in three stages. During the first stage, CMA is providing access to guidelines previously published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ); the guidelines to which CMAJ does not hold copyright are listed and the full text will be added when the developers have granted permission. Other guidelines will be added as they become available.

CONSORT

The CONSORT statement for improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials.

Definitions of Evidence Based Medicine/Healthcare/Practice ScHARR

This is a ScHARR Compilation page of definitions of Evidence Based Medicine etcetera from published articles, reports books and Web pages.

Discussion Lists ScHARR

A ScHARR compilation page listing all evidence based healthcare email discussion lists that have been identified to date. The page includes joining criteria, instructions and a brief description of each list.

Evidence Based Emergency Medicine Group

The EBEM Group website provides access to a journal club and to support-materials on how to formulate a question, appraise a study and search the literature. The EBEM Group, a multi-centre collaboration of emergency medicine faculty members based at the New York Academy of Medicine, is a centre of project development for the teaching of evidence based medicine in emergency medicine training programmes. The group works actively with the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the Centre for Health Evidence at the University of Alberta.

Evidence-Based Medical Practice / Pratique Médical Fondée Sur les Preuves Scientifiques

Fully bi-lingual Canadian site. The purpose of this web site is to facilitate finding and using the evidence-based medical data available on the Internet. The site is primarily aimed at medical doctors, but we also hope to reach other healthcare professionals, policy makers, and healthcare consumers along with related organizations. When completed, this web site will offer four modules: a directory of web sites offering evidence-based medical information, a search engine for evidence-based data, an interactive self-teaching program, and an electronic discussion group.

Evidence Based Medicine Course

Online tutorial prepared by a Reference Librarian and HTML Programmer at State University of New York. Topics covered include: Purposes of Evidence Based Medicine, A Guide to Research Methods, Searching Biomedical Databases, Applying EBM to Online Searching and Evaluating the Studies You Find.

Evidence Based Medicine - Finding the Best Clinical Evidence

EBM resource from the University of Illinois.

Evidence Based Medicine Resource List

This site maintained by Chris Cox at the Library at the University of Hertfordshire has useful references and links to other resources. Although lacking the comprehensiveness of the ScHARR Guide to Evidence Based Practice this site more than makes up for this with its conciseness and clarity. Probably the best single compilation page on EBM on the Web.

Evidence Based Medicine Training Packages ScHARR

This is a ScHARR list of Teaching Packages and resources found on the World Wide Web. It includes both self-directed learning and tools to support teaching sessions. A further list of materials is available at the Italian GIMBE site.

Evidence Based Pathology

This site, developing at the University of Nottingham, is currently a gateway to resources on EBM. However it is likely to develop into a valuable resource in its own right.

Evidence Based Pediatrics

A resource for evidence based paediatrics at the University of Michigan containing Critically Appraised Topics, Guidelines for a Journal Club and a CAT Template available as a MS Word document.

Evidence Based Practice - Electronic Distance Learning Course

St.Loye's School of Health Studies, Exeter runs this innovative, credit-rated course which aims to introduce the principles, methods and applications of EBP to nurses, midwives, health visitors and the professions allied to medicine.

Information Mastery: An Introduction

A Web-based course from Michigan State University that introduces the basic concepts of Information Mastery, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBP), and critical appraisal of the medical literature. Contents include:Reading an article about diagnosis, Reading an article about therapy, Reading an article about prognosis and Reading an overview or meta-analysis.

Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine

A tutorial developed between UNC and Duke University.

Midwives Online

An information site for midwives.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

National Guidelines Finder

Pediatría Basada en la Evidencia

Spanish evidence based pediatrics site. Contains a CAT Bank ("archivo de temas valorados críticamente" and "archivo de artículos valorados críticamente").

Percentage of Evidence Based Treatment ScHARR

This is a ScHARR compilation page of studies (and email discussions) concerning the percentage of evidence based healthcare in various specialties. It traces the pre-history of the debate and then, following the landmark study by Ellis et al, 1995, it documents all contributions to the debate.

PRODIGY

PRODIGY is a computerised GP decision support system whose guidance is evidence based.

Quackwatch

Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.

The Referral Practice Booklet

Topics: Acne, Acute low back pain, Atopic eczema in children, Glue ear in children, Menorrhagia, Osteoarthritis of the hip, Osteoarthritis of the knee, Psoriasis, Recurrent episodes of acute sore throat in children, Urinary tract (outflow) symptoms, Varicose veins.

Resources for Evidence Based Surgery

A site, created for all surgeons and the related medical community, hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons, England. It contains a listing of the 300+ journal titles held by the Library together with links to journal home pages ( in many cases, providing current content pages, full text articles, etc). Similar links to the most frequently used journals in the different categories of surgery (based on the Science Citation Index). Links to free medical databases including Medline and a listing of Cochrane Systematic Reviews relevant to surgery are also available together with details of guidelines and reports publicsed by the RCS and other surgical bodies/societies. Links to internet resources relevant to evidence based surgery complete the picture together with details of the many email discussion groups open to surgeons.

Resources for Practicing EBM

This site specialises in paediatric critical care (aka intensive care) medicine but many of its links are of wider applicability to EBM. It also includes the PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club.

SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course

An online tutorial providing a comprehensive overview of Evidence Based Medicine. Sections include:

Systematic Literature Review Training Module

This module at the University of Leeds has been designed to provide a basic introduction to the systematic literature review process. It follows the NHS CRD Guidelines for systematic reviews and includes a self assessment questionnaire for evaluating learning outcomes.

TROUT

Traditional vs. Randomised OUTcomes. "How do the outcomes of patients treated within randomised control trials compare with those of similar patients treated outside these trials?"

Section 1: Social influence

• December 20, 2006: The Social Animal by Eliot Aronson
• December 22, 2006: Persuasion: Theory and Influence by T. Raghavan

Final Paper Due: Submit here

Section 2: Applied Persuasion

1. January 6: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
2. January 8: Dynamics of Persuasion and Group Influence by TP Roberts
3. January 12: Do Group Dynamics Matter? by Cheskin and Siva

Section 3: Group Dynamics

January 14, 2007: Group Dynamics by Petty and Caccioppo

Late papers not acceptable