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Online resources, courses, and training programs Prepared by Jane L. Forrest, RDH, EdD, Associate Editor
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ere are several online resources for those who would like to learn more about evidence-based practice/health care, improve their knowledge of research methodology and statistics, and develop skills in each of the steps of evidence-based decision making. In addition, a range of course offerings and centers
that have links to additional sites, including calendars or training agendas of workshop offerings, are provided. You may want to bookmark the Web sites you find particularly interesting since they are periodically updated with new course listings and dates. Look for new Web site listings in each issue.
EVIDENCE-BASED ONLINE TUTORIALS AND MATERIALS Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Materials, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/training.html Evidence-Based Medicine Web Tutorial, USC, http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/lis/tutorials/ebm.html Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto EBM, http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/ebm/ Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center, Teaching/Learning Evidence-Based Medicine, http://www.ebmny. org/teach.html HealthLinks, Best Available Evidence, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/readebm.html PubMed Tutorial, National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2017.html MEDLINE Searching Strategies, http://jeffline.tju.edu/Education/courses/informatics/activities/med_info.html Bandolier—Dental and Oral Health, http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/dental.html Learning and Information Services, University of Hertfordshire, UK, http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/ SUNY Health Sciences Evidence-Based Medicine Course from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/toc.html PICO PROCESS AND FINDING THE EVIDENCE Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Tutorial • Step 1: Designing An Answerable Question, http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/miner/guides/ebhctut1.html • Step 4: Filtering Your Search for the Evidence, http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/guides/ebhctut4.html Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, CEBM • Focusing Clinical Questions, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/focusquest.html • Searching for the Best Evidence in Clinical Journals, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/searching.html Introduction to EBM, Duke University/UNC • The Well-Built Clinical Question, http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/index.htm • The Literature Search, http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/literat.htm Evidence-Based Medicine • Finding the Best Clinical Literature, http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebm.shtml • HealthWeb, Linking You to the Best in Health Information— Guides to Searching the Literature from University of Illinois at Chicago, http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=39
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RESEARCH DESIGN AND STATISTICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS Guide to Research Methods, The Evidence Pyramid, http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/2100.htm Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP), http://www.casp.org.uk/ Basic Statistics for Clinicians, http://www.intensivecare.com/Tutorial.html#anchor1215108 Canadian Medical Association Journal, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/series/stats.htm • Hypothesis testing, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0027.htm • Interpreting study results: confidence intervals, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0169.htm • Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0351.htm • Correlation and regression, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0497.htm BMJ How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-Statistician, http://www.bmj.com/archive/7104/7104ed.htm How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-Statistician. II: “Significant” Relations and Their Pitfalls, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7105/422 Ovid Resource of the Month, http://www.ovid.com/demo/dotm/rotm.cfm CALENDAR OF EVENTS: TRAINING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS Advanced Evidence-Based Practice, http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ebm/frameduc.htm Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry: Forthcoming Events, http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/events.htm CEBM EBH Calendar of Events, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/calendar.html Cochrane Workshops 2001-2002, http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/workshop.htm Cochrane Oral Health Group, April-May 2002, http://www.cochrane-oral.man.ac.uk/ebp.course.htm Conferences and Courses, http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm.htm#conf Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, CASP Workshops, http://www.phru.org/casp/CASPworkshops.html Evidence-Based Dentistry, A 5-Day Course, January 28-February 1, 2002, http://www.conted. ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/dentistry/dentfr.htm Evidence-Based Healthcare Training Agenda, http://nhso.med.navy.mil/ebhc2/resources/trainingagenda.htm How to Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, McMaster University, http://www.cche.net/ebcp/ Oxford Workshops on Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/workshopsteaching.html Teaching/Learning Evidence-Based Medicine, http://www.ebmny.org/teach.html FORMAL EDUCATION Master’s Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/ Part-time courses: • Postgraduate Certificate, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/pgcert/pgcertfr.htm • Postgraduate Diploma, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/pgdipl/pgdiplfr.htm • MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/msc/mscfr.htm MSc in Primary Health Care by Web-Based Distance Learning: Prospectus, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/primcarepopsci/msc/index.html EVIDENCE-BASED CENTERS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), http://www.ahrq.gov/ Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry, http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/index.htm Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/ Centres for Health Evidence, http://www.cche.net/ The Cochrane Collaboration, http://www.cochrane.de/ Evidence-Based Informatics, HIRU at McMaster, http://www.hiru.mcmaster.ca Evidence-Based News, National Center for Dental Hygiene Research,http://www.usc.edu/ebnet Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center, http://www.ebmny.org McMaster Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Group, http://www-fhs.mcmaster.ca/rehab/ebp/
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DIRECTORIES AND DATABASES SUMSearch is a “meta-search” engine for evidence-based medicine resources. It searches multiple online databases and returns a customized list, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, http://SUMSearch.uthscsa.edu The Trip Database searches more than 61 sites of high-quality medical information and gives you direct, hyperlinked access to material on the Web, http://www.tripdatabase.com/ PEDro, The Physiotherapy Evidence Database, http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/ PubMed, Free access to MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness), http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm Dental systematic reviews, http://www.cochrane-oral.man.ac.uk/dental_systematic_reviews.htm Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources (eg, evidence-based virtual library, software, and journals), http://www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/ netting/searching.htm Drug Databases • Corey Nahman.com updated daily; pharmaceutical news and information, http://www.coreynahman. com/druginfopage.html • RxList, http://www.rxlist.com/ • MEDLINEplus Health Information, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html HerbMed is an evidence-based database that provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is maintained by the Alternative Medicine Foundation Inc, Bethesda, Md, http://www.herbmed.org/
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ere are several online resources for those who would like to learn more about evidence-based practice/health care, improve their knowledge of research methodology and statistics, and develop skills in each of the steps of evidence-based decision making. In addition, a range of course offerings and centers
that have links to additional sites, including calendars or training agendas of workshop offerings, are provided. You may want to bookmark the Web sites you find particularly interesting since they are periodically updated with new course listings and dates. Look for new Web site listings in each issue.
EVIDENCE-BASED ONLINE TUTORIALS AND MATERIALS Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Materials, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/training.html Evidence-Based Medicine Web Tutorial, USC, http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/lis/tutorials/ebm.html Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto EBM, http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/ebm/ Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center, Teaching/Learning Evidence-Based Medicine, http://www.ebmny. org/teach.html HealthLinks, Best Available Evidence, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/readebm.html PubMed Tutorial, National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2017.html MEDLINE Searching Strategies, http://jeffline.tju.edu/Education/courses/informatics/activities/med_info.html Bandolier—Dental and Oral Health, http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/dental.html Learning and Information Services, University of Hertfordshire, UK, http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/ SUNY Health Sciences Evidence-Based Medicine Course from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/toc.html PICO PROCESS AND FINDING THE EVIDENCE Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Tutorial • Step 1: Designing An Answerable Question, http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/miner/guides/ebhctut1.html • Step 4: Filtering Your Search for the Evidence, http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/guides/ebhctut4.html Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, CEBM • Focusing Clinical Questions, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/focusquest.html • Searching for the Best Evidence in Clinical Journals, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/searching.html Introduction to EBM, Duke University/UNC • The Well-Built Clinical Question, http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/index.htm • The Literature Search, http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm/literat.htm Evidence-Based Medicine • Finding the Best Clinical Literature, http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebm.shtml • HealthWeb, Linking You to the Best in Health Information— Guides to Searching the Literature from University of Illinois at Chicago, http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=39
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RESEARCH DESIGN AND STATISTICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS Guide to Research Methods, The Evidence Pyramid, http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/2100.htm Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP), http://www.casp.org.uk/ Basic Statistics for Clinicians, http://www.intensivecare.com/Tutorial.html#anchor1215108 Canadian Medical Association Journal, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/series/stats.htm • Hypothesis testing, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0027.htm • Interpreting study results: confidence intervals, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0169.htm • Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0351.htm • Correlation and regression, http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0497.htm BMJ How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-Statistician, http://www.bmj.com/archive/7104/7104ed.htm How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-Statistician. II: “Significant” Relations and Their Pitfalls, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7105/422 Ovid Resource of the Month, http://www.ovid.com/demo/dotm/rotm.cfm CALENDAR OF EVENTS: TRAINING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS Advanced Evidence-Based Practice, http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ebm/frameduc.htm Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry: Forthcoming Events, http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/events.htm CEBM EBH Calendar of Events, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/calendar.html Cochrane Workshops 2001-2002, http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/workshop.htm Cochrane Oral Health Group, April-May 2002, http://www.cochrane-oral.man.ac.uk/ebp.course.htm Conferences and Courses, http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm.htm#conf Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, CASP Workshops, http://www.phru.org/casp/CASPworkshops.html Evidence-Based Dentistry, A 5-Day Course, January 28-February 1, 2002, http://www.conted. ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/dentistry/dentfr.htm Evidence-Based Healthcare Training Agenda, http://nhso.med.navy.mil/ebhc2/resources/trainingagenda.htm How to Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, McMaster University, http://www.cche.net/ebcp/ Oxford Workshops on Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/workshopsteaching.html Teaching/Learning Evidence-Based Medicine, http://www.ebmny.org/teach.html FORMAL EDUCATION Master’s Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/ Part-time courses: • Postgraduate Certificate, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/pgcert/pgcertfr.htm • Postgraduate Diploma, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/pgdipl/pgdiplfr.htm • MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care, http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/msc/mscfr.htm MSc in Primary Health Care by Web-Based Distance Learning: Prospectus, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/primcarepopsci/msc/index.html EVIDENCE-BASED CENTERS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), http://www.ahrq.gov/ Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry, http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/index.htm Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/ Centres for Health Evidence, http://www.cche.net/ The Cochrane Collaboration, http://www.cochrane.de/ Evidence-Based Informatics, HIRU at McMaster, http://www.hiru.mcmaster.ca Evidence-Based News, National Center for Dental Hygiene Research,http://www.usc.edu/ebnet Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center, http://www.ebmny.org McMaster Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Group, http://www-fhs.mcmaster.ca/rehab/ebp/
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DIRECTORIES AND DATABASES SUMSearch is a “meta-search” engine for evidence-based medicine resources. It searches multiple online databases and returns a customized list, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, http://SUMSearch.uthscsa.edu The Trip Database searches more than 61 sites of high-quality medical information and gives you direct, hyperlinked access to material on the Web, http://www.tripdatabase.com/ PEDro, The Physiotherapy Evidence Database, http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/ PubMed, Free access to MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness), http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm Dental systematic reviews, http://www.cochrane-oral.man.ac.uk/dental_systematic_reviews.htm Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources (eg, evidence-based virtual library, software, and journals), http://www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/ netting/searching.htm Drug Databases • Corey Nahman.com updated daily; pharmaceutical news and information, http://www.coreynahman. com/druginfopage.html • RxList, http://www.rxlist.com/ • MEDLINEplus Health Information, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html HerbMed is an evidence-based database that provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is maintained by the Alternative Medicine Foundation Inc, Bethesda, Md, http://www.herbmed.org/
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