Web sites for Evidence Based Medicine.

 

http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/ebm-uwsom/articles.html

This site provides a complete array of EBM articles and series: User's Guide to the Biomedical Literature, How to Read a Paper, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analysis, Getting Research into Practice, Clinical Guidelines, and Basic Statistics for Clinicians.


http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/ebm/

This site from Toronto has a wide range of material, links and downloads for Palm OS  such as an EBM calculator and likelihood and NNT tables.

 

http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/

This site from Oxford has downloads for desktop/laptops such as the CATmaker.   CATmaker is a software tool which helps you to create Critically-Appraised Topics, or CATs, for individual studies in Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis or Aetiology/Harm

 

http://www.acponline.org/public/bedside/index.html

This site provides references about the utility of history and physical for bedside diagnosis.

 

http://www.infoguidecenter.com/acc/

This American College of Cardiology site has downloads for both Palm and Windows OS for pocket PCs of guidelines for management of acute myocardial infarction, implantation of pacers and anti-arrhythmic devices, and management of valvular heart disease

 

http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/collection/antithrombotic_suppl

This site gives references to guidelines for antithrombotic therapy but you need a password to download them

 

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/

Great site from Sheffield for EBM links

 

http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/folder/new_draft.htm

General information about EB practice at McMaster University