EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
The Nation's Lead Federal Agency for Research on Health Care
Quality, Costs, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
6011 Executive Blvd., Suite 200
Rockville, MD. 20852
(301) 594-1783
AHRQ's Quality Indicator Web Site:
www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
University Health Network - Mount Sinai Hospital
The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources
that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and
continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical
disciplines.This site also serves as a support for the book entitled,
Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by David L. Sackett,
Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Hayns
www.cebm.utoronto.ca
Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine
Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter has received a
grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an Evidence-based
Medicine Resource Center. Evidence-based medicine is a methodology for
evaluating the validity of research in clinical medicine and applying the
results of care of individual patients. Evidence is gathered through systematic
review of the literature, and is critically appraised. The results are then
integrated with physician/patient decision making.
www.ebmny.org
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
Third Edition. Copyright 2002 Duke University Medical Center Library and
Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.
www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/ebm
Kaiser Permanente
America's largest not-for-profit health care organization, serving 8.1
million
members in 9 states and the District of Columbia.
www.kp.org/index.html
Summary: Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has been defined by David Sackett, MD, a
Canadian pioneer of EBM, as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of
current best evidence in making clinical decisions about the care of individual
patients. This practice," he adds, "means integrating individual clinical
experience with the best available clinical evidence from systematic research."
A less formal definition is that EBM is a bridge between clinical research and
clinical practice, bringing the best applicable evidence from scientific
research to the provision of patient care. www.kp.org/medicine/newsletter/ebm.html
Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline is a systematically developed statement
designed to assist practitioner and patient in making decisions about
appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. www.kp.org/medicine/newsletter/PerMed%7E1.pdf
University of Massachusetts Medical School's Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
web site
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM
