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off-campus access to subscription electronic resources.
Print Resources
E-Textbooks
Databases
E-Journals
Recommended Websites
Systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. Free summaries online: current BU students and faculty may access full text Cochrane Reviews via Ovid.
Evidence-based information on child welfare programs addressing emotional, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence.
Based in Oxford, UK, this site offers information, tools, and downloadable resources for EBM.
From the University of Toronto's University Health Network, this site offers resources and information on the theory and practice of EBM.
Based at the University of Sydney's School of Physiotherapy, this site offers evidence-based physiotherapy resources, including the PEDro database.
From the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, a collection of full-text resources explaining the basics of EBM.
Tools and information for emergency medical professionals.
Summaries of a number of topics, designed for quick review by hospital clinicians.
Resources, including clinical questions and answers, from the University of Michigan Health System.
Evidence-based resources for nursing, midwifery, medicine, and allied health care.
Evidence-based answers to clinical questions and other resources for primary care practice. From UK National Health Service; registration (free) required outside UK.
University of British Columbia program. Free registration required for some features; Drug Assessments freely available.
Users' Guides are a series of originally published articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Alumni Medical Library Resources
25 minute video tutorial that explains how to search the biomedical literature to locate evidence-based information.
BU and BMC Resources
An online EBM newsletter from BMC, BUMC and the NIAAA.
Consumer Health
Advice on how to determine if consumer health information is reliable.
Information for consumers, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Links to EBM resources useful for consumer health.
Evidence-Based Practice Search Engines
EBM search engine developed by the University of Texas Health Science Center: searches a variety of websites for articles, reviews, and guidelines.
Government Agencies and Resources
Internet Guides and Pathfinders
Links to online information, compiled by the Karolinska Institutet University Library, Stockholm, Sweden, and maintained by Tor Ahlenius.
Links to online resources for learning, teaching and practicing EBM.
Links to online EBM information in a variety of categories, compiled by the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research.
Tutorials and Learning Tools
The University of Alberta's "collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making."
An online course in five parts, with quizzes to evaluate progress, from Michigan State University.
A tutorial from Duke University.
Tutorials in Evidence Based Practice from the University of Nottingham School of Nursing.
