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EBP Introduction, Training, & Tools

Resources and tools selected by the Health Science Library staff to help you gain a greater understanding of Evidence Based Practice.

Critically Appraised Topics (CAT) Banks

CAT Crawler
Cat Crawler is a meta-search engine from the Bioinformatics Institute, thatsimultaneously searches eight popular CAT libraries including the Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford (CATBank).

Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics
Critically appraised topics from the American Thoracic Society.

Evidence in Motion
An educational and business practice consultation company dedicated to creating and promoting evidence based practice within Physical Therapy. Evidence in Motion maintains a CATBANK within its Evidence Resources page.

Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics
Contains critically appraised topics and individual articles focusing on Occupation Therapy interventions. Materials have NOT been subjected to an independent peer review process, therefore completeness and accuracy cannot be guaranteed.


EBP for Healthcare Specialists

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Nursing (University of Texas)
The purpose of the Center is to advance evidence-based nursing practice, research, and education within an interdisciplinary context. The goal is to turn research into action, improving health care and patient outcomes in the community, through evidence-based practice, research, and education.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statements
Webpage containing AAP Policy Statements, Clinical and Technical Reports and Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Center for Evidence Based Practice
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Family Medicine

Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health
Promotes and supports the teaching and practice of evidence based mental healthcare. Searchable database covering diagnosis, therapy, living with the disease and consumer reading list.

Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health
Established by Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust & Institute of Child Health, London as part of the national networks of Centres of Evidence-Based Health Care.

Evidence-based Nursing (University of Minnesota)
The website includes models of evidence-based nursing, a link to current projects, information on evaluating the quality of nursing research, links to research-based nursing journals, and assistance with teaching evidence-based nursing.

National Electronic Library for Mental Health Database
The Mental Health Specialist Library aims to meet the information needs of health care professionals who work in the field of mental health. This site contains the best available evidence to support people making mental health care decisions.

National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a mission to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.

Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice
Support for Nursing Research and EBP at University Hospital.

University of Michigan's Evidence-Based Pediatrics
This page serves as a resource for our residents and faculty who are developing skills in the practice of evidence-based pediatrics.


EBP Introduction & Training

Amedeo
Amedo is a journal monitoring website that helps keep clinicians up to date with the medical literaure. Sign up is free, and customizable. Select your area of focus along with the journals you would like monitored and Amedo will do the rest.

EBM Toolkit
A collection of tools (worksheets, search strategies, glossaries) for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. ( University of Alberta)

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Tutorial
This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine. (Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Netting the Evidence
Provides an introduction to Evidence Based Practice including; a descriptive directory of organizations and useful learning resources; such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. ( University of Sheffield)

Oxford University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
The home of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) was established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the world whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. There is a wealth of information and links to other EBM resources.

SUNY Health Sciences Evidence-Based Medicine Course
From SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Medical Research Library of Brooklyn.

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature Bibliography
This website includes links for all the JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. (Centres for Health Evidence)




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