Evidence-Based Medicine: Selected Links

Clinical Evidence Concise

Summaries of the best available evidence on treatment of approximately 200 conditions. Requires registration (free)

Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center

A joint project of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American College of Physicians. Links to EBM resources on the web.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2009

The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services includes U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening, counseling, and preventive medication topics and includes clinical considerations for each topic. This new pocket guide is an authoritative source for making decisions about preventive services.

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine

An interactive tutorial from Duke University

Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

Includes an introduction to EBM concepts, links to resources on teaching EBM, and a toolbox of useful links

University of Alberta Evidence-based Medicine toolkit

An extensive site, which offers advice on how to appraise journal articles on different subjects (therapy & prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, etc.), advice on search strategies to pull up the more reliable studies, links to the appropriate article from the JAMA series on critical appraisal of the literature, and more

Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice

A complete set of the Users' Guides originally published as a series in JAMA. See also: Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine for an examination of the role of evidence-based medicine in medical education, from the Centre for Health Evidence in Alberta, Canada.