Evidence-Based Practice: Outside Resources

The Centre promotes evidence-based health care and provides support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. Includes the EBM Toolbox, an assortment of materials which are very useful for practitioners of EBM, and EBM Teaching Materials, including PowerPoint presentations.

Includes many resources for practicing and teaching EBM

Quick summaries of evidence-based medicine.

The origins of EBM are explored in this filmed oral history of EBM pioneers.

Blog developed by Terry Shaneyfelt, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama.

This tutorial provides a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Practice. Developed by staff at Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A comprehensive list of EBM websites, tutorials, glossaries, worksheets, materials, and references. Developed by Connie Schardt.

(STEPS) Statistical Education through Problem Solving Consortium.

Calculator produces measures of risk increase/decrease and number needed to treat or harm, including confidence intervals. Developed by Alan Schwartz at UIC.

Calculator computes sensitivity, specificity, post-test probabilities, and likelihood ratios. Developed by Alan Schwartz at UIC.

MedCalc 3000 is an electronic medical reference and analysis tool of calculators, decision trees, clinical criteria sets, equations, and unit and dose converters. Enter specificity, sensitivity or likelihood ratios as search terms.

Guidance on calculating diagnostic statistics and interpreting likelihood ratios from the University of Alberta.

Guidance on calculating harm/etiology statistics from the University of Alberta.

Guidance on calculating therapeutic statistics (CER, EER, RR, RRR, ARR, NNT, CI) from the University of Alberta.

An evidence-based, integrated, searchable knowledge base of genetic associations and human genome epidemiology.

An integrated, searchable knowledge base of cancer human genome epidemiology and genomic applications in cancer care and prevention.

PharmGKB is a comprehensive resource that curates knowledge about the impact of genetic variation on drug response for clinicians and researchers.