Point of Care Clinical esources
· Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) :National Library for Health
· DynaMed:
· Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoRetriever)
· First Consult
· UpToDate
· Clinical Evidence
· ACP PIERS pier
· Systematic Reviews
· Cochrane:
· Database of Systematic Reviews of effectiveness DARE:
· Pubmed Systematic Reviews
· AHRQ EPC Evidence Reports: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Up-Dates & New Evidence
ÿ Mc Master Plus
ÿ STAT REF
ÿ BMJ Evidence Updates/Alerts
ÿ Pubmed: For both Primary and Secondary Literature
ÿ ACP Journal Club: For new Secondary (CATS) Literature
ÿ Journal of Family Practice POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters)
ÿ Pubmed via PICO:
ÿ AskMedline
ÿ PubMed Clinical Queries (National Library of Medicine)
ÿ Medscape
Critical Appraisal Tools
ÿ Evidence based medicine toolkit
ÿ Critical Appraisal Skills Programme : CASP
ÿ EBM toolbox
ÿ CATmaker
ÿ Critical Appraisal Checklists
§ Checklist for an article on treatment or prevention
§ Checklist for an article on qualitative research
§ Checklist for an article on decision analysis
§ Checklist for an article on an educational intervention
§ Checklist for an article on prognosis
§ Checklist for an article on harm or causation
§ Checklist for an article on guidelines
§ Checklist for an article on diagnosis or screening
§ Checklist for a systematic review
§ Checklist for economic evaluations
Evidence-Based Quality Improvement
· AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
· Evidence-based Practice: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm
· AHRQ Innovation Exchange: http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/content.aspx?id=1811
· Outcomes & Effectiveness: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/outcomix.htm
· Effective Health Care: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
· Technology Assessments: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/techix.htm
· Preventive Services: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/prevenix.htm
· National Guideline Clearinghouse™ : http://www.guideline.gov/
· CAHPS® Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems Health Care Innovations Exchange Health: https://www.cahps.ahrq.gov/default.asp
· Information Technology: http://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt
· Measuring Healthcare Quality: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/measurix.htm
· Medical Errors & Patient Safety: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errorsix.htm
· National Quality Measures Clearinghouse: http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/
· Patient Safety Network: http://www.psnet.ahrq.gov/
· NHQR & NHDR Quality Indicators: http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/
· Quality Information & Improvement: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qualix.htm
· Talking Quality: http://www.talkingquality.gov/
· Communicating with Consumers
· WebM&M Morbidity & Mortality Rounds: http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/
· Clinical Improvement Skills: http://www.improvementskills.org/index.cfm
· Institute for Healthcare Improvement: :http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/LeadingSystemImprovement/
Evidence-Based Guidelines, Policies and Protocols
· National Guidelines Clearinghousehttp://www.guideline.gov/
· National Library of Guidelines http://www.library.nhs.uk/GUIDELINESFINDER/
· NICE National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellencewww.nice.org.uk
· NHS Evidence: http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/default.aspx
· Guide to Community Preventive Services http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
· Guide to Clinical Preventive Services http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/cps3dix.htm
· Health-Evidence-ca: http://health-evidence.ca/
· MMWR Reports and Recommendations http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_rr.html
· ICSI Institute for Clinical Systems Improvements http://www.icsi.org/index.aspx
· Health Care Improvement Skills Centrehttp://improvementskills.org/
· Society of Hospital Medicinehttp://www.hospitalmedicine.org/
Decision Support Systems
· Isabel http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/home/default
· Open Clinicalhttp://www.openclinical.org/dss.html
· DXplainhttp://dxplain.org/dxp/dxp.pl
· ER Medical Calculatorshttp://www.geocities.com/nyerrn/2/ed/tools.htm#calcs
• Skyscape: http://www.skyscape.com/archimedesonline/archimedesindex.aspx
• Emergency Medicine on the Web: http://www.ncemi.org/
• MedicineWorld.Org: http://medicineworld.org/online-medical-calculators.html
• Clinical Decision Making Calculators: http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/cdmcalc.htm
Primary Care Resources
Portals to All
· HINARI http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
· TRIP http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html
· SUMSEARCH http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
· PUBMED http://www.pubmed.org/
v National & Gulf Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare:http://eapps.ngha.med.sa/ebm/EBM-Library/index.htm
Best Practices (Experience-Based)
• Promising Practices: http://www.promisingpractices.net/
• Model Practices Database: http://www.naccho.org/topics/modelpractices/database/
Filtered High-Quality Web Pages
• Intute: http://www.intute.ac.uk/
• Google Scholar:http://scholar.google.com/
EBM Audiovisual Training
• Pubmed Training: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
• EBM Resources: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/education/guides/feature/finditfast