Websites With EBM Tools

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Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality EBP

Bandolier – Provides abstracts for systematic reviews of treatments, of evidence about diagnosis, epidemiology or health economics within the Knowledge Library. Also contains an EBM Glossary of terms, statistics, and numbers.

Bayesian Analysis Model - Calculator for sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of tests from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine: Tools – A collection of useful tools to help you practice and teach EBM which includes critical appraisal sheets, explanations of levels of evidence, an interactive computer-assisted critical appraisal tool, and statistical tools and explanations.

Finding the Clinical Literature – Tutorials, worksheets, descriptions of filters and criteria for evaluating evidence.  This guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature.

Practical Pointers for Primary Care – Published by Dr. Richard T. James Jr to provide “highlights” of articles he reviews each month from NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, Lancet, Annals Internal Medicine, And Archives Internal Medicine.  During his practice as a primary care internist, Dr. James realized how difficult it was for clinicians to keep up with new information as it was published, yet also realized the necessity of keeping up.  Since his retirement, Dr. James Jr has dedicated himself to reviewing articles, abstracting those of particular note, and offering his opinions based on his own clinical experience and interaction with patients.  The publication is intended for use by professional health-care workers, especially for those in primary care and is copyright free.

Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice - The following is the complete set of Users' Guides, originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Please note that all tools formerly associated with the Guides below - including calculators, worksheets, and additional educational materials - have been removed. These features have been enhanced and re-introduced in a new interactive website, http://www.usersguides.org/. Access to the site is available by subscription through JAMA.

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