EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE SITES

Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF)

- list of advice on identifying existing reviews and research

Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health

- promotes the provision of effective and efficient child health care through an educational programme for health professionals

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

- contains the EBM Toolbox with numerous aids to the practice and teaching of EBHC

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

- contains a range of resources to promote and support the teaching and practice of evidence-based mental healthcare

Centre for Evidence Based Nursing

- identify evidence-based practice through primary research and systematic reviews and promotes the uptake of evidence into practice through education and implementation activities in areas of nursing where good evidence is available

Centre for Health Economics

- principle research areas include economic evaluation of health technologies, outcome measurement, primary care, community care, determinants of health

Guidelines Project Homepage

- UK based initiative to develop an electronic database of critically-appraised, clinical practice guidelines for health and allied care professionals across the NHS

Help for Health Trust

- supports the dissemination of high quality of patient information

Institute of Health Studies Filters

- methodological search filters for retrieving sound clinical studies that deal with diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, aetiology, guidelines, treatment outcomes and evidence-based health care methods

McMaster University (Canada) EBM Page

- collection of EBM learning and teaching materials

National Research Register (NRR)

- Register of research currently funded by the Department of Health and NHS R&D Directorate

Netting The Evidence

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

- develops and publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for use by the health service in Scotland

Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) Database

- combination of 18 databases of hyperlinks and are over 3000 links to evidence based topics

WISDOM Project

- delivers continuing professional development (CPD) in primary health care, using Internet technologies for information sharing and communication

EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE PUBLICATIONS

ACP Journal Club

- value added summaries and comments to articles reporting studies and reviews published by the American College of Physicians

Bandolier

- contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine

Development and Evaluation Committee (DEC) Reports

- provides usable information on health technology effectiveness developed by the NHS R&D South and West

Effectiveness Matters

- provides updates on the effectiveness of important health interventions for practitioners and decision makers in the NHS

Evidence-Based Medicine

- surveys a wide range of international medical journals to identify the key research papers that are scientifically valid and relevant to practice

Evidence-Based Purchasing

- digest of outputs from the NHS Executive R&D programme

Health Evidence Bulletin - Wales

- signposts to the best current evidence across a broad range of evidence types and subject areas

Health Technology Evaluation Research Reviews (DEC Reports)

- reviews and cost utility analyses of health technologies

Health Technology Assessment Programme

- a NHS R&D Research and Development Programme targeting at the questions of purchasers, providers and users of health services on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Reports

- covers the effectiveness and cost-effectives of care for particular conditions, health technologies, and delivery of health service