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Evidence-Based Health Care

• Bandolier.
• CASP: The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme
• Centre for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford
• Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health in London
• Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry in Oxford
• Centre for Evidence-Based Dermatology in Nottingham
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai, Toronto, including packages on practising EBM
• Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health in Oxford
• Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing in York
• Centre for Evidence-Based Pathology in Nottingham
• Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy in Sydney
• Centres for Health Evidence, in Canada, where they have loads of EBH resources, including critical appraisal worksheets and the JAMA Guides
• CHAIN, a multidisciplinary network of people working in health and social care.
• Evidence for Policy and Practice Information (EPPI) Centre, based at the Institute of Education in London, focusing on health and education policy makers
• Evidence-Based Social Policy, ESRC Collaboration in the UK
• Cochrane Collaboration, core content for The Cochrane Library, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Berkeley Systematic Reviews Group, with training and guidelines on how to conduct systematic reviews
• HIRU - The Health Informatics Research Unit, at McMaster University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Canada, featuring a large inventory of evidence based resources and an on-line database.
• The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York
• Clinical Practice Innovation, a toolkit and other practical resources to help clinicians improve their own practice and that of their teams and peers, run by Centre member Jeremy Wyatt and his colleagues at UCL

Email discussion lists

• Evidence-Based-Health
• a list of lists relevant to EBM, maintained by SCHARR
• Resources for Practising EBM, a comprehensive and concise bibliography of EBM resources on the web.

Non-English Language EBHC Sites

• Critique et Pratique, a journal club in French run by Laval University Family Medicine Department

• Evidence-Based Medicine in Switzerland, a journal club and EBM site in German, maintained by Johann Steurer
  Stiftung Paracelsus heute in Switzerland, in German: critical appraisal of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive interventions of modern as well as unconventional medicine, plus courses, symposia and research using EBM techniques.
  Ulmer Initiative für Evidence-Based Medicine, written in German and maintained by Joerg Sigle and Franz Porzsolt.

• IAMBE, Instituto Argentino de Medicina Basada en las Evidencias, in Spanish
  CASP Espana, Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, in Spanish

• Gruppo Italiano per la Medicina Basata sulle Evidenze (GIMBE), Evidence-Based Medicine Italian group.

• Evidence-Based Medicine in Taiwan, an introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine in Chinese (set up your browser to accept Chinese characters!).

• Evidence-Based Medicine in Japanese, based at the Department of Public Health of the University of Nihon.

• Agaton, providing support for Evidence-Based Health Care in Russian

Journal Clubs and CAT Banks on the Web

• The Journal of Family Practice, which reviews 7-10 articles from the primary care literature each month as part of POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters).
• Evidence-Based on Call
• University of Rochester Medical Center (CATs)
• University of Michigan Paediatrics (CATs)

Information: Finding the Evidence

• The National Library for Health (for health professionals)
• TRIP Database
• SUMsearch (indexing evidence-based content on the web)
• Netting the Evidence: The SCHARR Guide to EBP on the Internet

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Find useful EBM articles at:

• ScHARR,
• EBM Librarian
• Pedsccm Evidence Based Medicine Resources