Useful Links

Clinical decision support systems / guidelines

• Decision making for “average” patients
  • Guidelines
    • National Guideline Clearinghouse (U.S)
    • The GRADE working group
    • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (also known as NICE) (U.K.)
    •  International guideline library
    • Recommended clinical practice guidelines Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee
    • Disease specific guidelines
    • Oncology
      • American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) practice guidelines
      • NCCN Guidelines
• Decision making for an individual patient
  • Clinical Decision Making Calculators, OUHSC Dept Family Preventative Medicine
  • Nomogram to calculate diagnostic and treatment action thresholds
• Decision making for specific conditions / diseases
  • Adjuvant systemic therapy tools

o     Determining colon cancer treatment survival benefits

o     Determining melanoma treatment survival benefits

o    Breast cancer risk assessment tool

Summaries / Synopses

• Clinical Evidence, BMJ Publishing Group
• Best Treatments (U.K.) BMJ

Syntheses

• Databases of Systematic Reviews
  • http://www.cochrane.org/docs/ebm.htm
  • Cochrane Library (try: OVID EBMR also)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ (U.S)

Studies

• Search engines
  • PubMed - National Library of Medicine
  • TRIP Database
• Libraries for EBM resources
  • Moffitt Library
  • USF Libraries
  • UBC LIBRARY Evidence Based Health Care
  • EBM Tools
  • Risk Reduction Calculator

• Reporting standards
  • Equator-network.org
  • CONSORT checklist
  • CONSORT flowchart
  • CONSORT extensions
  • STARD checklist & flowchart  
  • STROBE
  • MOOSE
  • QUOROM checklist & flowchart