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Resources about EBP on the Web
Center for Evidence-Based Medicine--Oxford
University of Washington Health Links
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine – University Health Network
Evidence Based Occupational Therapy
Applying EBM to Online Searching
Locating Evidence
PubMed (USP users); PubMed (non-USP users)
A free way to search Medline, the world's largest collection of biomedical literature. Use the PubMed tutorials to learn to use all its features. Create a "My NCBI" account to keep up on the latest evidence on topics you're interested in.
The American Occupational Therapy Association provides a number of services, including lowcost delivery of articles from its library (members pay less) and access to Evidence-Based Practice Resources (members only).
Jointly done by the University of Western Sydney, the University of Queensland, and OT Australia, partially funded by the Australian Motor Accidents Authority. It attempts to include all systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials that are of use to practice in occupational therapy.
OTSearch (USP users); OTSearch (non-USP users)
A database produced by the American Occupational Therapy Association that provides citations to articles of interest to OT's from a variety of journals. The most frequently requested topics are available to non-members.
U.S. Department Health & Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Quality & Research
The agency funds 12 centers across the United States for the purpose of "synthesizing scientific evidence to improve quality and effectiveness in health care."
Abstracts can be searched without a subscription, also Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials. USP users may search through Ovid.
DARE contains critical analyses of systematic reviews; the other available databases include assessments of health economics articles and information on health technology assessments. USP users also may search DARE through Ovid.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Compiled by a government agency; guidelines included must meet certain criteria.
Produced by the University of Texas Health Sciences center at San Antonio. Better than its clunky interface indicates. It provides guided searching to Medline as well as metasearching on the Internet to websites with reliable information.
Resource for Critiquing Research
Trochim, William M. The Research Methods Knowledge Base.
A basic textbook in evaluating research. Latest edition (online or in print) must be purchased.
Collections of
Evidence
(available through subscription)
Many hospitals and universities (including USP) have subscriptions to Ovid, which includes links to Cochrane full text from Medline and the fulltext of articles from DARE and the ACP Journal Club. If you have access, check it out.
Therapeutic recommendations based on evidence. Prepared by BMJ.
Created by the American College of Physicians.
Journal Articles
EBM articles by Trisha Greenhalgh,
from July through September, 1997 BMJ
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: the Medline database. BMJ. 1997 July 19; 315(7101): 180–183. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about). BMJ. 1997 July 26; 315(7102): 243–246. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: assessing the methodological quality of published papers. BMJ. 1997 August 2; 315(7103): 305–308. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests. BMJ. 1997 August 9; 315(7104): 364–366. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls. BMJ. 1997 August 16; 315(7105): 422–425. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: papers that report drug trials. BMJ. 1997 August 23; 315(7106): 480–483. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: papers that report diagnostic or screening tests. BMJ. 1997 August 30; 315(7107): 540–543. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses). BMJ. 1997 September 6; 315(7108): 596–599. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. How to read a paper: papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). BMJ. 1997 September 13; 315(7109): 672–675. Available free from PubMed Central.
Greenhalgh, T. and R. Taylor. How to read a paper: papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). BMJ. 1997 September 20; 315(7110): 740–743. Available free from PubMed Central.
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