Evidence Based Health Care Tools

 

  • Bandolier Links, Highly recommended by NZGG. A helpful list of EBM sites compiled from a list of Andrew Booth’s bookmarks.

 

  • CATbank: Selection of Critically Appraised Topics from the University of Michigan, USA.

 

  • Curbside: enter naturally phrased clinical questions to search evidence based material

 

  • EPIQ - Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) Checklists

 

 

 

  • CONSORT, which stands for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials, encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

 

  • Google Netting the Evidence: Search engine dedicated to the methodology of evidence based practice. Netting the Evidence searches 107 sites.

 

 

  • OTCATS A critically appraised topic (or CAT) is a short summary of evidence. It is like a hosrter and less rigorous version of a systematic review, summarising the best available research evidence on a topic.

 

 

  • Statistics for Clinicians: A series of four papers published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on hypothesis testing, interpreting study results, assessing the effects of treatment and correlation and regression.

 

  • Toolkit: Evidence-Based Medicine, It is a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making

 

 



Last updated on: 28 / 03 / 2011


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