Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)

These interactive tutorials take you through the EBM process and provide reinforcement and helpful suggestions along the way.

University of North Carolina resources for faculty, librarians, students and health care professionals interested in learning about evidence-based practice.

Created by the Library Faculty at Scottsdale Community College to help prepare students for their research assignment on Evidence Based Practice and its application to nursing.

A self-paced tutorial that takes you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well-built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. These are static web pages. Developed by the Medical Library at Duke and The Health Sciences Library at UNC. Widely cited.

The Australian Northern Territory Health Library brings together a robust list of tutorials and resources for learning about EBM.

Based in part on the Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit, http://www.ebm.med.ualberta.ca/ ”… a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. The appraisal tools are adapted from the Users' Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA

Oxford institution which develops, promotes and disseminates better evidence for healthcare.

Knowledge Translation Canada is a network of Canadian experts in knowledge translation joining forces to tackle the greatest challenge in health care today: the fact that although there is a great deal of health research being conducted, there is a gap in applying the results at the patient’s bedside and in every day health decisions.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA 1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5.

DL Sackett, W Rosenberg, J Muir Gray, RB Haynes, WS Richardson. BMJ 1996; 312 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71 (Published 13 January 1996)

WS Richardson, MC Wilson, J Nishikawa, RS Hayward. ACP Journal Club. Nov-Dec 1995;123;A12.