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Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web
Evidence-Based Nursing and Health Care Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Useful links include Clinical Information and Research Findings.
- Best Practice Network
Made available by a not-for-profit entity. Their vision is to provide a
place where innovative solutions and best practices can be shared among
nurses and other healthcare practitioners to promote healthy communities and
provide optimal patient care.
- BMJ - How to Read a
Paper
A series of articles in the British Medical Journal that concisely cover how
to assess health research articles.
- Centre
for Evidence-Based Nursing, University of York, UK
Concerned with furthering Evidence-Based Nursing through education,
research, and development.
- Cochrane Collaboration
"Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic
reviews of the effects of health care interventions."
- Critical Appraisal
of the Literature
Review the critical reading skills needed to make sense out of the 6 million
medical articles published annually. Article from J Am Board Fam Pract
12(4):315-333, 1999 via Medscape.
- Evaluating the
Literature: Quality Filtering and Evidence-Based Medicine and Health
Class manual made available by the National Library of Medicine. Good
backgound reading.
- Evidence-Based Medicine Data
Sources
Maintained by the Marshall University School of Medicine.
- Evidence-based
Filters for OVID CINAHL
Provides expert search strategies to use as filters to find "the
better" articles for answering clinical problems in CINAHL, the
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Defines better
articles as those whose results are based on valid and reliable scientific
evidence and applicable to particular clinical decisions. Courtesy of the
University of Rochester Medical Center Miner Library.
- Evidence Based
Health Care Practitioners Links
Well-maintained and frequently updated list from McMaster University Health
Sciences Library, Ontario, Canada.
- Evidence-Based
Health Care Resources on the Internet
Excellent set of links from the University of Rochester Medical Center Miner
Library. Well worth browsing.
- Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
Site is a result of a NIH grant to the New York Academy of Medicine in
partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American
College of Physicians, New York Chapter. Contains references,
bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases. Offers
practice tools to support critical analysis of the literature and MEDLINE
searching.
- Evidence-Based Medicine
(EBM) Resource Page
Good links from the SMBD - Jewish General Hospital - Health Sciences Library
- Evidence Based Medicine
Tool Kit
From the University of Alberta, Canada. Provides a collection of tools for
identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care
decision-making. Based on the work of the Evidence Based Medicine Working
Group.
- Finding Answers to
Questions in Evidence Based Medicine
Good list ranking resources, plus seven-step procedure for finding EBM
answers on the web.
- HealthWeb: Evidence
Based Health Care
A fine collaborative effort between the Library of the Health
Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago (LHS-Peoria), the
National Network/Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region and the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation's (CIC) HealthWeb Project.
- The Medical
Literature as a Resource for Evidence Based Care
An excellent working paper by Ann McKibbon, Research Coordinator, and others
of the Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) of McMaster University,
Faculty of the Health Sciences. The article reviews the rationale for EBM
and describes information tools to facilitate its practice, emphasizing the
research done at HIRU and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics at McMaster University. Good reading.
- Method
for Evaluating Research Guideline Evidence (MERGE)
Health outcomes model available for download from the The Centre for
Clinical Policy and Practice of the New South Wales Health Department.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
The Clearinghouse's intent is to make evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials widely
available to health care professionals. NGC is operated by the U.S. Dept. of
Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American
Association of Health Plans (AAHP).
- Netting the Evidence:
A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
Excellent set of links from the University of Sheffield, School of Health
and Related Research.
- PubMed's
Table for Clinical Queries Using Research Methodology Filters
Compares PubMed and ELHILL terms used for certain categories of methodology.
Searching Ovid
MEDLINE Using Evidence Based Medicine Strategies by Indiana University
adapts this table for search strategies for diagnosis, prognosis, etiology,
and therapy.
- Search Strategies to
Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, presents
strategies to maximize retrieval. Focus is on OVID version.
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