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  Oxford University Centre
      for Evidence-Based Medicine 

      Location: http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/
      The home of EBM whose aim is to promote evidence-based health
      care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to
      make use of them. There is a wealth of information and links
      to other EBM resources.

      
The Cochrane Library 

      Location: http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm
      The Cochrane Library, considered one of the premier sources of
      EBM, is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality,
      reliable evidence about the effects of health care. Abstracts
      of Cochrane Reviews are available without charge.

      
Bandolier
      Location: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/

      An online, monthly journal containing bullet points of evidence-based
      medicine, searchable by subject.

      
Turning Research into Practice-TRIP
      (Gwent) 

      Location: http://www.ceres.uwcm.ac.uk/

      A collection of services/projects that were undertaken to improve
      the evidence-base of primary care. It is a database of databases.
      Multiple resources can be searched simultan/~fsly. Text is available.

      
Info Poems Inc. -. Bring Evidence to
      the Point of Care

      Location: http://www.infopoems.com/

      A. Journal of Family Practice -- POEMS (Patient-Oriented Evidence
      that Matters)

      Peer-reviewed medical journals are searched to identify important
      articles for primary care physicians.

      B. InfoRetriever: Commercial subscription product that searches
      journals and other EBM resources. Free demo is available to download.

      
The General Pediatrician's View of the
      Internet

      http://www.generalpediatrics.com/

      GeneralPediatrics.com (http://www.generalpediatrics.com) is an
      award-winning digital library that identifies and

      organizes high quality, authoritative General Pediatrics World
      Wide Web sites. It is designed for quick and

      easy use by pediatric health care providers in their daily practices
      and patients and families in their daily lives.
 

      
 Tutorials

      
Evidence Based Medicine- Finding the
      Best Clinical Literature

      Location: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/ebm.html

      University of Chicago.

      
EBM Toolkit - University of Alberta. 

      Location: http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm

      
How to Read a Paper (BMJ series) and
      Much More

      Location: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/primcare-popsci/uebpp/uebpp.htm#How

      
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
      - Canadian Centres for Health Evidence 

      Location: http://www.cche.net/principles/content_all.asp

      Website includes a discussion of what is EBM, how to use the
      JAMA User Guides to critically appraise the literature and worksheets.

      
Guidelines


      
National Guideline Clearinghouse Location: http://www.guideline.gov

      A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines,
      sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
      in partnership with the American Medical Association and the
      American Association of Health Plans.

      
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines

      Location: http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines

      Compilation of international guideline resources for providing
      quality care available on the World Wide Web - evidence-based
      guidelines, consensus guidelines, protocols, practice parameters,
      primary articles, review articles, site listings, and other resources
      for patient care.

      
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
      Guidelines Database

      Location: http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/

      A comprehensive compendium of all of the official guidelines
      and recommendations published by the US CDC for the prevention
      of diseases, injuries, and disabilities.

      
CPG Infobase (Canadian Medical Association) Location: http://www.cma.ca/cpgs/

      These clinical practice guidelines were produced or endorsed
      in Canada Listed by title, topic (Medical Subject Heading) and
      developer.

      
New Zealand Guidelines Group Location: http://www.nzgg.org.nz/index.htm

      Searchable guideline library--labeled by development method:
      Evidence based or consensus based. Tools for guideline development
      and evaluation.
 

      
  Master Lists of
      EBM Web Resources/Links

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

      Information Resources Section. School of Health And Related Research
      (ScHARR) University of Sheffield.

      
Evidence Based Health Care Practitioners
      Links (McMaster University)

      Location: http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/all.html

      
New York Academy of Medicine EBM Links

      Location: http://www.ebmny.org/links.html

      
MedWeb (Emory University) Location: http://www.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/

      
Medical Library Association

      Location: http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/resource.html

      
 

      
Adopted from material prepared at:

      
Health Sciences Library

      State University of New York at Syracuse

      Syracuse, New York 13066