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• Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews
  "subject based links to Cochrane reviews of 'evidence based medicine' studies; the results of research to assess the effects of health care to make better decisions and improve the delivery of health care"
• ClinicalTrials.gov
  "to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies; user can browse by keyword, disease or condition, treatment, or funding agency; developed and maintained by U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine"
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
  "known as a database of quality assessed reviews; includes keyword search engine, a 'guide' to searching database, a helpline and a monthly updated email service; staff at the U.K. National Health Service identify potential systematic reviews and selected only those of high methodological quality"
• Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center Resource Center Publications
  "contains considerable information about EBM including fact sheets, newsletter issues, links to other sites, bibliography and abstracts of current articles; maintained by the The New York Academy of Medicine and the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians"
• Evidence Based Practice
  "alphabetical listing of links to evidence based practices for specific diseases; contains summaries and/or evidence reports; compiled by the (U.S.) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"
• National (Evidence-Based Clinical Practice) Guideline Clearinghouse
  "a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that is compiled from several U.S. governmental and non-governmental agencies; organized by diseases, treatments, organizations and a keyword search engine; also contains guideline summary sheets"
• Netting The Evidence
  "a comprehensive site with information on and links to all facets of evidence based medicine; includes category links to an electronic library, searching, appraising, implementing, journals and databases, organizations plus a keyword search index; the electronic library contains links to full text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice; developed at Sheffield University"
• SUMSearch
  "a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet; combines meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence; can search via keyword or keyword and Treatment or Diagnosis or Physical findings or Screening/prevention or Prognosis or Etiology/causation or Adverse treatment affects"
• User's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
  "comprehensive guide to use of evidence based medicine in clinical practice; includes an outline, worksheets, numerous "tools" for application, a "how to" tutorial and a key word search engine; reproduced with permission from JAMA/American Medical Asssociation"

  see also:

• American Board of Family Practice Reference Guidelines
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (CMA Infobase)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (University of California - San Francisco)
• For an extensive list of links to free fulltext books, see
• For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of links to free ejournals, see

Last updated September 20, 2001

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