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Evidence Based Practice - Health Care: Tutorials, Web Sites and More

A guide to evidence based practice resources.

Tutorials

Interdisciplinary tutorials:

Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences Tutorials (U of I - Chicago)
Evidence-Based Practice: an Interprofessional Tutorial (U of Minnesota)
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): Improving Patient Care (U of California - Irvine)
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (Duke)

Subject specific tutorials:

Evidence-Based Dentistry (U of I - Chicago)
Evidence Based Nursing (U of I - Chicago)
Evidence Based Dentistry (UNC)
Evidence-Based Physical Therapy (UNC)
Introduction to Evidence-Based Dentistry (Boston U Medical Center)

Evidence Based Centers

Interdisciplinary:

Centre for Evidence Based-Medicine (U of Oxford)
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (U of Toronto)
Cochrane Collaboration
Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center (NY Academy of Medicine Library & ACP, NY Chapter)
Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit (U of Alberta)
Evidence Based Practice Education Center of Excellence (U of North Carolina)
International Centre for Allied Health Evidence

Dentistry:

ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry
Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry (U of Oxford)

Nursing:

Academic Center for Evidence Based Nursing (U. of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio)
ANA Research Toolkit
Requires ANA membership
Joanna Briggs Institute

Clinical Laboratory Medicine

Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP)
Center for Disease Control's initiative to provided evidence based practice guidelines.
Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines
American Association for Clinical Chemistry recommend best practices informed by systematic review of evidence and consensus of content experts.

Web Sites for all Disciplines

AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
Comparative effectiveness guides and reviews.
BestBETs
Brief evidence based summaries for emergency medicine, cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and pediatrics.
Evidence-Based Practice (U. of Washington)
EBP tools summary, and links to resources, research centers, etc.
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
Links to evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, best practices, journals, and databases.
Evidence-Based Practices for Healthiest Wisconsin 2020
Evidence-based practices for objectives within state health plan priorities.
EvidenceUpdates from the BMJ Evidence Centre
E-mail alerting system and searchable database of article citations from over 160 clinical journals. Articles are pre-rated for quality and clinical relevance. Free registration is required.
Health-evidence.org
Database of systematic reviews on prevention and public health topics, and tools to assist with EBP.
Journal Watch
Summaries of clinically relevant research in 13 specialties from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.
KT+ Knowledge Translation
Current evidence on knowledge translation from the McMaster University Health Information Research Unit. Requires free registration.
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Provides simultaneous searching of the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), and the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Prospero
"International registry of prospective systematic reviews."

Evidence-Based Dentistry

Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry
University of Dundee (Dundee, Scotland)
CASP Appraisal Tools
worksheets to help you appraise different types of studies
Cochrane Oral Health Group
Part of the Cochrane Collaboration, it is an international network of healthcare professionals, researchers and consumers preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials in oral health. Oral health is broadly conceived to include the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of oral, dental and craniofacial diseases and disorders.
The Dental Elf - UK
a daily blog providing brief summaries highlighting evidence-based publications
Evidence-Based Dentistry (journal)
published by British Dental J. and Nature Publishing Group; *Available to Marquette users only
Practising EBD - CEBD
Details the 5 steps: Question, Find, Appraise, Act, Evaluate
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
"an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses" Includes downloadable 27-item checklist and a flow chart.