Evidence-Based Information

EBP Databases

TWU Databases

• Cochrane Systematic Reviews (Gold Standard)
  • Video Demo (Yale)
• ACP PIER  (American College of Physicians - Physicians Information & Education Resource)
  • Video Demo (Yale)
  • TWU Video Demo
• Medline with Full Text  (use Search Options link)
  • TWU Video Demo
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text  (use Search Options link)
  • TWU Video Demo
• STAT!Ref  (background & foreground information)
  • TWU Video Demo
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source  (use Browse tab)
  • TWU Video Demo
• PubMed Remote
  • TWU Video Demo (Clinical Queries)
  • TWU Video Demo (PubMed Limits)

Free Internet Databases

• TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)
• SUMSearch
• PEDro (Physiotherapy)
• OTseeker
• PsycBite (Brain Impairment)
• speechBITE (Speech Pathology)
• PubMed
  TWU Video Demo (PubMed Limits)
• PubMed Clinical Queries (RCTs and Systematic Reviews)
  TWU Video Demo
  Video Demo (Yale)
• D.A.R.E. (Database of Abstracts and Reviews of Effects)

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

• CEBM (Center for Evidence Based Medicine): What is EBM?
• Academic Center for Evidence Based Practice (UT San Antonio)
• Netting the Evidence
• Center for Health Evidence
• Find It Fast #1: Introduction (Yale Video Tutorial)
• EBM: Finding the Best Clinical Literature (U Illinois – Peoria)
• EBM Directory
• HealthLinks (U Washington)
• Evidence-Based Answers for Busy Clinicians.pdf (Center for Clinical Effectiveness)
• Finding the Evidence (CEBM)
• Critical Appraisal (CEBM)
• Study Design (CEBM)
• Making Decisions (CEBM)
• 4S: Studies, Syntheses, Synopses, and Systems
• CATs and CAPs: Definitions

The PICO Question: (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)

• Asking Focused Questions (CEBM)
• Background and Foreground Information
• Construct Well-Built Clinical Questions
• Formulating Answerable Clinical Questions
• Find It Fast #2: The Clinical Question (Yale Video Tutorial)
• PICO and Search Query Worksheet (UWisc-Madison)

Levels (Strength) of Evidence

• Levels of Evidence (CEBM)
• Essential Evidence Plus: Levels of Evidence
• Joanna Briggs Institute: Levels of Evidence
• Systems to Rate the Strength of Evidence.pdf (AHRQ)
• Find It Fast #3: The Pyramid (Yale Video Tutorial)

EBP Tools

• Tools For Each Step (CEBM)
• Critical Appraisal Worksheets (CEBM)
• BMJ Statistics at Square One
• StatSoft (electronic textbook)
• Clinical Significance Calculator (WHO)
• Stats Calculator (CEBM)
• Centre for Health Evidence: EBM Tools
• Essential Evidence Plus: Decision Support Tools and Calculators  
• EBM Toolkit  (UAlberta)
• How to Read a Paper Series by Greenhalgh
• AGREE .pdf  (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation Instrument)

Health Sciences (General)

• AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality)
• Tools For Each Step (CEBM)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• AHRQ Evidence Reports
• National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
• NHS Evidence (UK)
• NHS Evidence – National Library of Guidelines (click on Specialty)
• Best BETS (Best Evidence Topics) (UK)
• NHS NICE Guidelines by Topic (UK)
• AIDSinfo
• VA / DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines (Vet Affairs / Dept of Defense)
• AHRQ Innovations Exchange
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM)
• Bandolier Knowledge (UK)
• NHMRC – National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
• Patient Safety Network
• Guideline Advisory Committee: Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canada)
• Clinical Trial Results: CenterWatch
• Evidence-Based Pediatrics (UMich)
• Canadian Medical Association Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries – UK (Free Registration to Login)

Nursing

• EBN – Background and Definitions (U Illinois – Chicago)
• Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses
• Evidence-Based Prevention Resource for Nurse Practitioners (AHRQ)
• Evidence Based Public Health Nursing (EBPHN)
• ONS Putting Evidence Into Practice (PEP)
• Oncology Nursing Society (EBPRA)
• Oncology Nursing Society: (Research)
• Clinical Practice Guideline - Cancer Pain (AHCPR)

Health Studies

• Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
• CDC Community Preventive Services
• Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP)
• HEN: Health Evidence Network (WHO)
• NHS Public Health Guidance (UK)
• American College of Preventive Medicine (Practice Policy Statements)
• National Public Health Performance Standards Program – Local PH Systems
• National Public Health Performance Standards Program – State PH Systems

Occupational Therapy

• OTseeker
• Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy
• OTCATs (Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics)
• Critically Appraised Topics (McMasters Univ & Univ British Columbia - Canada)
• Critically Appraised Topics in Rehabilitation Therapy (Queens Univ - Canada)
• Rehabilitation Guidelines (UOttowa - Canada)
• PsycBite (Brain Impairment)

Physical Therapy

• PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
• Hooked on Evidence (APTA Member login)
• Evidence-Based Physical Therapy Tutorial (UNC)

Mental Health

• AHRQ-MH (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – Mental Health)
• American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines
• Center for Evidence Based Mental Health (UK)
• OCTUMI (Oxford Clinical Trials Unit for Mental Illness)
• NHS NICE Mental health and behavioural conditions (UNC)

Communication Science

• Critically Appraised Papers and Topics (NSW)
• NHS Evidence – ENT and Audiology (UK)
• ANCDS (Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences)
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• ASHA Position Statement Evidence Based Practice in Communication Science (UNC)

Consumer Health

• MedlinePLUS
• NHS Direct (UK)
• NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
• Consumers & Patients (AHRQ)
• Emedicine