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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.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
Critical analyses of systematic reviews. USP users may search through Ovid.
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.
Resources for Critiquing Research
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
An online program that "aims to enable individuals to develop the skills to find and make sense of research evidence, helping them to put knowledge into practice." Has worksheets to assist in assessment of research articles. Produced by the Public Health Resource Unit of the British National Health Service.
Trochim, William M. The Research Methods Knowledge Base, 2nd Edition.
A basic textbook in evaluating research. Latest edition (online or in print) must be purchased.
Other Collections of Evidence
Ovid
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.
7000 topics available. Very high institutional rates.
2500 topics available..
Created by the American College of Physicians.
Journal Articles
EBM articles by Greenhalgh,
from July through September, 1997 BMJ
BMJ July 1997;315:180-183 (19 July) : How to read a paper: Medline databases
BMJ July 1997;315:243-246 (26 July) : How to read a paper: Getting your bearings
BMJ Aug 1997;315:305-308; 422-425 (2 August) : How to read a paper: Statistics
for the nonstatistician
BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 480 - 483 :How to read a paper: Papers that report drug
trials
BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 540 - 543 How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic
or screening tests
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 596 - 599 How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what
things cost (economic analyses)
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 672 - 675 How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other
papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 740 - 743 How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers
(qualitative research)
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