Clinical Governance Resources
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Evidence Based Practice
- National Library for Health
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine from the University of Oxford. Home of the EBM Journal
- Centre for Health Evidence from the University of Alberta.
- Cochrane Library provides 'high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.'
- The Evidence Based Medicine Tool
Kit. A simpler version of the Users' Guides (see below) from the University of Alberta.
- Useful list of online databases from Kings College, London
- Netting the Evidence. Highly-regarded resource from ScHARR, University of Sheffield.
- Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice Complete set of Users' Guides, originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
- The 'How to Read a Paper' series, edited by Trisha Greenhalgh. Originally serialised in the British Medical Journal in 1997, and also now published as a collection:
Greenhalgh T (2001) How to read a paper : the basics of evidence based
Medicine London: BMJ Publishing Group (2nd ed.)
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The Medline database.
British Medical Journal ,
315:180-183
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Getting your bearings
(deciding what the paper is about). British Medical Journal ,
315:243-246
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Assessing the methodological
quality of published papers. British Medical Journal ,
315: 305-8
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Statistics for the
non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical
tests. British Medical Journal ,
315:364-366
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How to read a paper:
Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and
their pitfalls. British Medical Journal ,
315:422-425
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Papers that report
drug trials. British Medical Journal ,
315:480-483
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Papers that report
diagnostic or screening tests. British Medical Journal ,
315:540-543
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Papers that tell
you what things cost (economic analyses). British Medical Journal ,
315:596-599
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Papers that summarise
other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). British Medical Journal ,
315:672-675
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How to read a paper:
Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). British Medical Journal ,
315:740-743
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