Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews

Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence is the international source of the best available evidence for effective health care. It begins with common clinical questions and then looks for the evidence addressing those questions. E-access is free in developing and transitional countries. Access is provided for users of internet service providers with IP addresses in the following countries: http://www.bmjjournals.com/subscriptions/countries.shtml/. The site is maintained by the BMJ Publishing Group. http://www.clinicalevidence.com

The EBM Toolbox
The site contains an overview of the various components of evidence based medicine (EBM). The ‘toolbox’ includes EBM ‘levels of evidence’, methodology for addressing clinical questions, ‘study outline’ onEBM, brief EBM glossary, search tips for MEDLINE users, and links to other evidence based health care Internet resources. The site is maintained by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK http://www.cebm.net/toolbox.asp

Evidence-Based Health Care Resources
This gateway contains brief annotated links to numerous evidence based resources on the Internet. It is organized into several broad categories and is maintained by the Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester, U.S. http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/links/ebmlinks.html

Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center
The EBM Resource Centre contains considerable information about EBM including fact sheets, newsletter issues, links to other sites, a bibliography, and abstracts of current articles. The site is maintained by the New York Academy of Medicine and the Evidence-Based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians. http://www.ebmny.org/pubs.html

Evidence Based Practice
This is an alphabetical listing of links classified by disease. It contains summaries and/or evidence reports. The site is compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/epcix.htm

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
This online tutorial teaches the basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): how to construct a clinical question, identif search strategies that could improve MEDLINE retrieval, and identify key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. This is a joint project of Medical Center Library, Duke University, U.S., and the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, U.S. http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/index.htm

Navigating the Maze: Obtaining Evidence-Based Medical Information
The site is an overview of how to obtain evidence based medicine information. It includes a ‘pyramid’ of EBM resources, summaries of specific databases (some proprietary), useful Internet sites and search tutorials. The site is maintained by the School of Medicine, University of Virginia, U.S. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/collections/ebm/index.cfm

SUMSearch
SUMSearch is a useful and novel way to find medical evidence on the Internet. The user can search by keyword alone or by keyword in combination with any or all of the following : ‘Treatment’, ‘Diagnosis’, ‘Physical Findings’ ‘Screening/Prevention’, ‘Prognosis’, ‘Etiology/Causation’ or ‘Adverse Treatment Effects’. http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/

Telemedicine Research Centre
This is the site of a South African based telemedicine centre. Besides information about the organization, it contains a summary of its programs, reports and publications and research highlights. The Centre is part of the Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.mrc.ac.za/telemedicine/telemedicine.htm

TRIP Database
Initiated in 1997, the database is a search engine with a focus on evidence based medical articles. The contents now include the following categories: evidence-based guidelines, query-answering, medical images, ebooks, patient information leaflets and pee-reviewed journals. The site is free to users in low-income countries via IP address. http://www.tripdatabase.com/

User's Guide to Evidence Based Practice
This is a comprehensive guide for health professionals. It includes worksheets, application tools, a 'how to' tutorial, and a keyword search engine. The content is reproduced with permission from JAMA/American Medical Asssociation. http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp

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