Critical Appraisal Resources
AGREE instrument for appraising guidelines Use a worksheet to organize your critical appraisal of the literature.
Appraising the Evidence Step by step guide to appraisal with examples from the major categories of clinical studies.
CatMaker Download a wizard that guides you through a critical appraisal, then calculates appropriate EBM values.
Grade Working Group A cooperative effort to discuss and create standards for grading the evidence. The group "aim is to develop a common, sensible approach to grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations."
How to read a paper (BMJ) Guidance from a series of BMJ articles.
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EBM for Health Care Consumers
Ask NOAH About: Evidence-Based Medicine Learn more about evidence based medicine at a site designed for health care consumers.
Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs Consumer Reports takes an evidence-based practice approach to prescription drugs, providing analysis on the most effective treatment and at what cost. Click on the "Drug Reports" link to see all reports.
DISCERN Use a quality filtering tool to determine the validity and reliability of health information.
eMedicine World Medical Library Free, up-to-date, evidence-based information. Searches can be restricted to a consumer option for information from online textbooks and a growing collection of consumer treatment guidelines.
Firstgov Health and Nutrition Gateway to U.S. federal, state, county, and municipal web sites.
Health News Review Rates and reviews the accuracy, balance, and completeness of health reports in the news. Includes information on evidence concepts such as absolute vs. relative risk percentages, and the number needed to treat.
Patient Decision Aids (Ontario Health Research Institute) Tested, evidence based guides to help patients make tough health care decisions.
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PDA Resources for EBM
ACP PIER ( via STAT!Ref) Authoritative, evidence-based guidance for clinical care. Evidence is graded based on the type of research study and the quality of the evidence.
AvantGo Have content from any web page delivered to your PDA and updated regularly using AvantGo. Select from a list of content sources or create a personal channel to receive content from your favorite web site.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto) Provides downloads for logbooks, calculators, and tables.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers (National Guideline Clearinghouse) When you select a guideline at the National Guideline Clearinghouse web site., click on "Palm Download" to obtain the PDA version.
DynaMed Information on diseases and conditions are organized into categories for ease of use and quick answers to clinical questions. Links are provided to full-text electronic resources.
PubMed for Handhelds Use a "PICO" form to search wirelessly on your handheld.
Skyscape Select from a variety of handheld, evidence based resources to download to your PDA.
Unbound Medicine Select from a variety of handheld, evidence based resources to download to your PDA.
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EBM Calculators
Clinical Significance Calculator (University of British Columbia) Fill in the 2x2 table and instantly calculate ARR, RRR, Odds Ratio, and Number Needed to Treat.
EBM Calculator EBM Calculator designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies, Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials (RCT). Click on the "Handheld Resources" link.
EBM Toolbox (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine) Excel based spreadsheets for Confidence Intervals and Likelihood Ratios. Browse down the page and click on "Statistical Tools"
MedCalc 3000 MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. Includes EBM calculators.
Online Clinical Calculator Clinical calculators, including a Bayesian calculator.
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EBM Organizations
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