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Evidence Based Medicine
NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence)
NICE is part of the NHS. Its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current “best practice”. The guidance will cover both individual health technologies (including medicines, medical devices, diagnostic techniques, and procedures) and the clinical management of specific conditions.
CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)
CASP's aim is to help health service decision makers, and those who seek to influence decision makers, to develop skills in the critical appraisal of evidence about effectiveness, in order to promote the delivery of evidence-based health care.
CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine)
The CEBM has been established in Oxford (NHS Executive) as the first of several centres around the country whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. Contains a useful article: Evidence-Based Medicine: What it and what it isn't.
Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
The new Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health in Oxford promotes and supports the teaching and practice of evidence-based mental healthcare.
ScHARR (Netting the Evidence)
ScHARR - School of Health and Related Research - was formed in 1994 to act as a focus for health services research/health technology assessment within the University of Sheffield. This page is one the best known sites on Evidence Based Health Care. Also on this site: Lock's Guide to the Evidence and Definitions of Evidence Based Practice.
MedicalAudit.co.uk ((MiArt)
Designed to provide a portal to the best Evidence Based Medicine web sites and tools. Sites are not rated but they are reviewed and only included if they are considered to have valid and reliable information.
NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination
Located at the University of York. This site allows you to view and download (in PDF format) Effective Health Care bulletins which are issued bi-monthly. These bulletins are based on a systematic review and synthesis of research on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of health service interventions.
(DARE) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
DARE is a database of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions. Includes the NHS Economic Evaluation Database and the Health Technology Assessment Database.
Centre for Health Information Quality (C-H-i-Q)
Launched in 1997, C-H-i-Q has 3 years of funding from the NHS Executive to improve the capacity of the NHS to deliver high quality information about services, treatment options and outcomes.
Evidence Based Journals and Bulletins:
The American College of Physicians Journal Club is a bimonthly review of health related quality trials and systematic reviews.
The premier EBHC journal. Produced in Oxford UK for the NHS Research and Development Directorate.
A compendium of the best available evidence for effective health care.
Effective Health Care Bulletins
A bi-monthly bulletin for decision makers which examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions. University of York.
Provides health managers and policy-makers with the best evidence available about the financing, organization, and management of health care.
A bimonthly journal co-published by the BMJ Publishing Group and the American College of Physicians.
Journal published by the Department of Psychiatry of University of Oxford, and Warneford Hospital in Oxford of UK.
Evidence-based Purchasing is a bi-monthly digest of outputs from the NHS Executive R&D programme, intended to support evidence-based healthcare.
Provides updates on the effectiveness of important health interventions for practitioners and decision makers in the NHS.
A compendium of the best available evidence for effective health care.
Best Evidence is a CD-ROM, updated annually, providing an easy-to-search database. Contains every issue of both ACP Journal Club (from 1991 to 1998) and Evidence-Based Medicine (from 1995-1998), and more than 1100 abstracts.
Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales
Other useful resources:
A methodology for assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for health problems. The DISCERN Project is based in the University of Oxford, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, at the Institute of Health Sciences.
Cambridge University Public Health Page
Provided by the Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge. Some useful links to other EBH sites.
Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health
At the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
Centre for Evidence Based Dentistry
Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing
At the University of York.
Centre for Evidence Based Pathology
Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy (PEDro)
Centre for Evidence Based Pharmacotherapy
Centre for Evidence Based Social Services
Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA)
The HTA programme is a national programme of research established and funded by the Department of Health's Research and development programme.
(SIGN) Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
SIGN develops and publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for use by the health service in Scotland. Part of the Scottish Health on the Web internet site.
South and West Development and Evaluation Service
The Development and Evaluation service aims to provide commissioners in the South West and South East Regions with reliable, timely information about the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies.
National Centre for Clinical Audit
The NCCA aims to provide enquirers from all sectors and all professional backgrounds with comprehensive up-to-date references to material from multiple sources including: a directory of contacts for organisations and individuals active in the field of audit, catalogue of existing information available through a wider range of organisations, a national library of audit materials and a large specialised database of audit references.
Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF)
ARIF is a specialist unit of four people based at the University of Birmingham. Their role is to help health care workers access and interpret research evidence, particularly systematic reviews of research, in response to particular problems they are experiencing
Quality of information check list developed by C-H-i-Q in collaboration with the Health Education Authority.
Centre Watch - Clinical Trials Listing Service
US based. Lists more than 35,000 industry and government sponsored clinical trials.
The Society for Clinical Trials, created in 1978, is an international professional organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge about the design and conduct of clinical trials and related health care research methodologies
Centre for Research Support (CeReS)
Aims to stimulate research in primary care in Wales. Contains the Trip database
InterTASC (Technology Assessment Services Collaboration)
InterTASC is a collaboration of organisations which have been established to provide commissioners in health authorities and primary care groups and NHS Trusts with research knowledge about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acute service interventions. Formerly known as InterDEC.
You need to register (free) to enter.
Evidence Based Health Care - A Resource Pack
This pack contains reading and key references concerning the background and current thinking on evidence-based health care and details of the groups and organisations involved in this movement. See also: A-Z of Evidence-Based Health Care for a list of resources and organisations involved in EBH.
National Guideline Clearing House (US)
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
National Research Register (NRR)
Register of research projects funded by, or of interest to, the NHS.
Assessing Health Information:
Quality and the internet: evaluating information
Health Promotion England
Finding Quality Health Information on the Internet
Internet Healthcare Coalition (US)
BIOME, University of Nottingham
Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites
Health on the Net Foundation (Switzerland)
Quality Standards for Medical Publishing on the Web
British Healthcare Internet Association
Aimed at teachers, from HEA
Centre for Health Information Quality
Works with information producers and providers to raise standards in the production of consumer health information
Promotes the assessment and testing of treatments, whether 'orthodox' or 'alternative' and consumer protection in all forms of health care
Nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere (US)
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