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Developing Skills for Evidence Base Practice

Forumlating the question

1. Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)
http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/toolbox.html
This site has Evidence Based Medicine Toolbox

2. Trish GreenhalghHow to Read a Paper http://www.bmj.com/collections/
(Scroll down to the section on Books and click on “How to Read a Paper: the basics of evidence based medicine”).

3. Kings College School of Medicine and Dentistry – Evidence Based Health Care: A Resource Pack http://drsdesk.sghms.ac.uk/Starnet/pack.htm

Searching for the answer

1.Obgyn.net: the Universe of Women’s Health (Network)
http://www.obgyn.net/

2. http://bmj.com
Select pubmed.

Evidence Sites

1. School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield

Seeking the Evidence : a protocol. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/proto.html

Netting the Evidence http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/fulltext.htm

2. Canadian Medical Association http://www.cma.ca/eng-index.asp
Select Clinical Practice Guidelines

3. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists  http://www.rcog.org.uk/
Select Good Medical Preactice from the main menu and then select “Evidence-based Clinical Guideline”. This will take you to a web site that has specific topics relating to evidence based medicine.

4. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Canada
http://sogc.medical.org/SOGCnet/index/html

5. The British Medical Journal
http://bmj.com .collections-collections or
Use the search engine to find relevant references. Key in “Evidence” and perform a search.

The Cochrane Library

1. How to search the Cochrane Collection
The University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd (click on Cochrane Library Training. For evidence, click on Reviews)

2. Sites for Cochrane Library
McMaster University
http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane/default.htm

The Cochrane Library in Australasia http://som.flinders.edu.au/fusa/cochrane/acc/accbroch.htm
www.update-software.com/cochrane/cochrane-frame.html (abstracts only)

Users guides and tutorials for critically appraising data

1. Centres for Health Evidence.net
http://www.cche.net/principles/content_all.asp

2. Sheffield University, Andrew Booth's sites
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/abookmrk.html

3. Alan O’Rourke "Evidence Based Practice: How to Evaluate the Evidence"
Sheffield University, Wisdom Centre
http://www.wisdomnet.co.uk/default.asp

4. Trish Greenhalgh How to Read a Paperhttp://www.bmj.com/collections/
(Scroll down to the section on Books and click on “How to Read a Paper: the basics of evidence based medicine”).

5. University of Pittsburg http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Epidemiology

1. University of Pittsburgh http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

2. See also http://www.bmj.com/collections/
(Scroll down to the section on Epidemiology).

Public Health

1. Critical Appraisal Skills Program (National Health Service)
www.public-health.org.uk/casp (click on Appraisal checklists)

2. British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com/collections/
(Scroll down to the section on Public Health).

How to use statistics in medicine

http://www.cmh.edu/stats
http://www.members.aol/com/johnp71/javastat.html
British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com/collections/
(Scroll down to the section on Statistics).

Other resources for Evidence Based Medicine

1. McMaster University: The Health Information Research Unit
http://www.hiru.mcmaster.ca/

2. Monash University: Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthservice/cce/

3. World Health Organisation
http://www.who.int/

4. www.medmatrix.org/index.asp (click on Specialities, click on Gynaecology or on Obstetrics)

5. Arbor Nutrition Guide http://arborcom.com