Evidence-Based Medicine

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Home Page

[Free to all]

United States. Department of Health and Human Services.

Contents include: National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR); National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR); AHRQ Quality Indicators.

Cochrane Collaboration

[Free to all]

Cochrane Collagoration is international not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care and its primary product is the "Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews" consisting primarily of reviews prepared by members of their Collaborative Review Groups such as Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group.

Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group (CEVG)

[Free to all]

CEVG is the Cochrane Collaboration Review Groups that prepares, maintain and promote access to systematic reviews of all the interventions used to prevent or treat eye diseases and/or visual impairment for inclusion in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Cochrane Library

[Off-campus access]

This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.

DARE: Database of abstracts of review of effects.

[Free to all]

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews about the effects of interventions. Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.

Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on eye health

[Free to all]

Hodge, William.

"July 2005."

Evidence-Based practice tools summary

[Free to all]

A nice review of Cochrane, PubMed clinical queries and many of the other tools availble to clinicians.

Eyes and vision specialist library (EVSL)

[Free to all]

UK site provides a searchable index to the following:Clinical Evidence, Health Technology Assessment reports, NICE guidelines, National Service Frameworks, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination abstracts, the Cochrane Library, Prodigy; and professional body publications. Open to all UK practictioners but some links are not accessible to NECO.

health-evidence.ca

[Free to all]

"Promoting evidence based decision making."Provides research evidence and review literature for public health decision-makers, which is compiled in a searchable registry.

ICO International Clinical Guidelines

[Free to all]

International Council of Ophthalmology.

Provides evidence-based ophthalmology clinical guidelines and other international resources for evidence-based practice, including information on research and standards.

Knowing what works in health care :a roadmap for the nation

[Free to all]

Eden, Jill.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.

[Free to all]

United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Includes "Structured, standardized abstracts (summaries) containing information about measures and their development; A utility for comparing attributes of two or more quality measures in a side-by-side comparison; Links to full-text quality measures (when available) and/or ordering details for the full measure."

Trip Database : Turning research into practice

[Off-campus access]

Evidence-based medicine database developed to enable health professionals to find answers to clinical questions.

Users' guides to evidence based practice

[Free to all]

Includes the complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). "Evidence-based medicine requires new skills of the physician, including efficient literature-searching, and the application of formal rules of evidence in evaluating the clinical literature."