EBP: Topics & Tools
AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) Use a worksheet to organize your critical appraisal of the literature.Critical Appraisal Resources
Appraising the Evidence Step by step guide to appraisal with examples from the major categories of clinical studies. From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Toronto.
CatMaker Download a wizard that guides you through a critical appraisal, then calculates appropriate EBM values.
Grade Working Group A cooperative effort to discuss and create standards for grading the evidence. The group aim is "to develop a common, sensible approach to grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations."
How to read a paper (BMJ) Guidance from a series of BMJ articles on reading systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Ask NOAH About: Evidence-Based Medicine Learn more about evidence based medicine at a site designed for health care consumers.
Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs Consumer Reports takes an evidence-based practice approach to prescription drugs, providing analysis on the most effective treatment and at what cost. Click on the "Drug Reports" link to see all reports.
DISCERN Use a quality filtering tool to determine the validity and reliability of written health information.
eMedicine Health A consumer health information site that contains over 900 health and medical articles written by physicians for patients and consumers.
healthfinder.gov Resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet.
Health News Review Rates and reviews the accuracy, balance, and completeness of health reports in the news. Includes information on evidence concepts such as absolute vs. relative risk percentages, and the number needed to treat.
Patient Decision Aids (Ontario Health Research Institute) Tested, evidence based guides to help patients make tough health care decisions.
Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) is a comprehensive clinical decision support system. EE+ provides a number of diagnostic tools and daily delivery of POEMs. POEMs examine a clinical question, provide a bottom line, and review the pertinent information to help guide practice. EE+ is optimized for mobile devices.
PubMed for Handhelds Use a "PICO" form to search wirelessly on your handheld or download the iOS or Android App.
Skyscape Select from a variety of evidence based resources, including: DynaMed, drug resources, medical textbooks and clinical calculators.
Unbound Medicine Select from a variety of evidence based resources including: Point of Care tools, medical textbooks, drug information and dictionaries.
MedCalc 3000 MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formula, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.
Clinical Significance Calculator (University of British Columbia) Fill in the 2x2 table and instantly calculate ARR, RRR, Odds Ratio, and Number Needed to Treat.
EBM Tools (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine) Excel based spreadsheets for Confidence Intervals and Likelihood Ratios. Browse down the page and view the various statistical calculators.
MedCalc 3000 MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formula, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. Includes EBM calculators and available for mobile devices.
Health Calculators Clinical calculators, including BMI, Coronary Heart Disease Risk, Creatinine, and Pregnancy Date.