Evidence-based definition and resources

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1. *Bandolier*: Bandolier is produced monthly in Oxford for the NHS R&D Directorate. The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized trials, and from high quality observational studies. http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/ A section regarding diagnostic tests : http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/diag.html
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2. *The Cochrane Library*: The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Published on a quarterly basis and made available both on CD-ROM and the Internet, it is the best single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care. http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/index.htm http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/sharedfiles/cochrane_transiti...
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3. *Centre for Evidence Based-Medicine/University of Toronto*: the goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/
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4. *EBM Online/ BMJ journal*: Evidence-Base Medicine is a journal released every month which alerts clinicians of important advances in general and family practice, internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology. This is accomplished by selecting from the biomedical literature those original and review articles whose results are most likely to be true and useful. The articles are also summarised in abstracts and a commentary by a clinical expert is added. This site contains a large archive of articles organized by both category and date as well as useful links to other evidence-related websites. http://ebm.bmjjournals.com/
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5. *NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination*: The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) has the goal of producing reviews concerning the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions. It provides access to several databases including a database of structured abstracts of good quality systematic reviews (DARE) which comment on the methodological features of published reviews and summarise the author's conclusions and any implications for health practice. It also provides the full text Effective Health Care Bulletin which is a bi-monthly bulletin for decision-makers that examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions. Effective Health Care bulletins are based on a systematic review and synthesis of research on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of health service interventions. This is carried out by a research team using established methodological guidelines, with advice from expert consultants for each topic. Centre for reviews and dissemination: DARE : http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/darehp.htm
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6. *Canadian Health Techonology Assesment*: CCOHTA is a primary source for unbiased, evidence-based information on drugs, devices, health care systems and best practices. Canadian health care decision makers rely on CCOHTA to help them make well-informed health technology choices. CCOHTA is funded by Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments. http://www.ccohta.ca/entry_e.html