Clinical decision-making (evidence-based health care)

Sources for Background Information

• Essential evidence-based medicine
• JAMAevidence
• Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice (2008)
• Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice (2002)

Core and Additional Databases

• ACP's Pier: Physicians' Information and Education Resource
• Clinical Evidence
• Cochrane Library
• DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (NHS CRD)
• DynaMed
• Essential Evidence Plus
• EvidenceUpdates (formerly BMJUpdates) Free registration required
• Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Database
• OT Seeker
• PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
• PubMed Clinical Queries
• SpeechBITE
• TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice)
• UpToDate

Drug Information

• Medical Letter

Selected Internet Sites

Evidence-Based Health Care Centres

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), Toronto
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), Oxford
• Centre for Health Evidence (CCHE), University of Alberta
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre / Réseau-centre Canadien Cochrane
• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: Evidence-Based Clinical Prevention
• Health Information Research Unit (HIRU)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)

Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Canadian Medical Association Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Alberta Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
• Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) (Clinical Practice)Guidelines
• Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) Nursing Best Practice Guidelines
• Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) and the Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative (CCOPGI)
• US National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC)
• US Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
• American College of Cardiology (ACC) / American Heart Association (AHA) Practice Guidelines
• Center for Disease Control (US)- search for prevention guidelines
• PRODIGY Knowledge - Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle Ltd. (SCHIN)
• NICE Clinical Practice Guidelines - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK