EBM RESOURCES

 
 

Foreground Resources	Background Resources	Tutorials	EBM Calculators
EBM Clinical Trials	EBM Complementary and Alternative Medicine	Evidence-Based Consumer Health	Evidence-Based Drug Information
EBM Emergency Medicine	EBM Geriatrics	EBM Glossaries	EBM Guidelines
EBM Mental Health	EBM Nursing and Allied Health	EBM Pediatrics	Prevention and Screening
Surgery	EBM Websites
Alternate Access - resources formatted for mobile devices

FOREGROUND RESOURCES

• PubMed  (Offers limited access to full-text articles for SUNY Downstate users. User name and password required)
• PubMed - No password required.
• Clinical Evidence   (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• Cochrane Library (SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)
• FirstConsult   (SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)
• ACP Journal Club (SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)
• JAMAevidence(SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)
• JAMA - Rational Clinical Examination Series
• Best Practice (SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)

BACKGROUND RESOURCES

• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• AccessMedicine (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• STATRef (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• MDConsult. (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• JAMAevidence(SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)
• Best Practice (SUNY Downstate Licensed Resource. User name and password required)

TUTORIALS (LEARNING EBM)

SUNY Downstate Evidence Based Medicine Course (Version 2.0)

Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit (University of Alberta)

JAMAevidence (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)

Evidence Based Practice in the Health Sciences (University of Illinois at Chicago)

JAMA - Rational Clinical Examination Series

Nomagram (from the JAMA User's Guide to Evidence Based Medicine)

How to Answer Your Clinical Questions More Efficiently Jeffrey M. Weinfeld, MD, and Kate Finkelstein, MLIS, AHIP Family Practice Management 12(7): 37-41. (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)

Finding Evidence-Based Information (SUNY Downstate)

PubMed Tutorial

Concise Tips for Using PubMed

Widener University: Evaluating Web Sites

UC Berkeley: Finding Information on the Internet

Cornell University: Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

EBM CALCULATORS

• All-Purpose 4-fold Table Analyser (please note that you will need the Shockwave plug-in to view this interactive image. If you do not have Shockwave installed, you will be presented with the opportunity to download it.)
• Stats Calculator from the University of Toronto

• ClinicalTrials.gov (Provided by the National Library of Medicine)

EBM COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
• Natural Standard (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)

EVIDENCE-BASED CONSUMER HEALTH

• Cochrane Library Consumer Network
• Medline Plus
• IntelliHealth
• ethnoMED - contains materials in 24 different languages
• Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse - contains materials ini multiple languages

EVIDENCE BASED DRUG INFORMATION

• Therapeutics Initiative Evidence Based Drug Therapy (University of British Columbia)
• Facts and Comparisons (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• Micromedex
  NOTE: Off-campus access is unavailable

EBM EMERGENCY MEDICINE

• Best BETs (Best Evidence topics for Emergency Medicine)
• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Evidence Based Medicine Interest Group

EBM GERIATRICS

• Gericareonline.net

EBM GLOSSARIES

• Glossary from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Clinical Epidemiology Glossary (from Evidence Based Medicine Working Group)

EBM GUIDELINES

• U.S. Clinical Practice Guidelines

EBM MENTAL HEALTH

• Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Psychnet-UK

EBM NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH

• Evidence-Based Nursing (SUNY Downstate Licensed resource. User name and password required)
• McGill University Health Centre - Research Resources for Evidence Based Nursing
• Nursing Resources - VCU Libraries
• Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice
• Evidence-Based Practice Tutorials
• Glossary of EBM Terms



• Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy Evidence Database
• OT Seeker
• Resource Directory for Evidence-Based Maternity Care

EBM PEDIATRICS

• Evidence Based Pediatrics Web Site (University of Michigan)
• Cochrane Child Health Field

PREVENTION AND SCREENING

• The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Preventive Services

SURGERY

• Evidence-Based reviews - published in Canadian Journal of Surgery
• Users' Guide - published in Canadian Journal of Surgery

EBM WEBSITES

• Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford, England)
• Canadian Centres for Health Evidence
• Section on Evidence-Based Health Care
• University of Toronto's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• JAMA Rational Clinical Examination Series - compiled by the Sladen Library at the Henry Ford Health System
• Mt Sinai School of Medicine