Sources for Evidence-Based Medicine

AAFP's Commission on Continuing Professional Development (COCPD) designates CME clinical content as evidence-based (EB CME) if it is presented with practice recommendations supported by evidence that has been systematically reviewed by an AAFP-approved, evidence-based medicine (EBM) source. Sources that consist exclusively of systematic evidence reviews are designated with an EB CME logo.

Evidence-Based Answers to Clinical Questions

Clinical Evidence, BMJ Publishing Group
http://www.clinicalevidence.com

Clinical Queries on PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
http://www.cochrane.org
[Abstracts free, subscription required for complete reviews]

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm

DynaMed
http://www.dynamicmedical.com

InfoPOEMs (including JFP POEMs)
http://www.infopoems.com

TRIP (Translating Research Into Practice)
http://www.tripdatabase.com

Evidence-Based Summaries of Recent Research

American College of Physicians Journal Club
http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc/jcmenu.htm
[Subscription required]

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

Evidence-Based Practice Newsletter (including JFP POEMs)
http://www.ebponline.net

InfoPOEMs (including JFP POEMs)
http://www.infopoems.com

Practice Guidelines

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Guidelines and Evidence Reports
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
http://www.ctfphc.org

Effective Health Care Bulletins
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ehcb.htm

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
http://www.icsi.org

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
http://www.guideline.gov

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm

PubMed and Medline Tools

Clinical Queries on PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html

National Library of Medicine (including MEDLINE/PubMed)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html

PubMed Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

Tutorials and Courses

Canadian Centre for Health Evidence
(Includes the complete set of users' guides originally published as a series in JAMA)
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/guideline.asp

Evidence-Based Medicine Tool Kit
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm

Introduction to Information Mastery
(Web-based course on information mastery, evidence-based medicine, and critical appraisal of the medical literature)
http://www.poems.msu.edu/infomastery/

Centers and Institutes

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)
http://www.cebm.net/

Evidence-Based Practice Internet Resources, McMaster University
http://hsl.lib.mcmaster.ca/resources/ebpractice.htm

Family Practice Inquiries Network
http://www.fpin.org
[Subscription required]

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/

Netting the Evidence
(introduction to evidence-based practice on the Internet)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/