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“Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) requires that decisions about health care are based on the best available, current, valid and relevant evidence. These decisions should be made by those receiving care, informed by the tacit and explicit knowledge of those providing care, within the context of available resources. All health care professionals need to understand the principles of EBP, recognize it in action, implement evidence-based policies, and have a critical attitude to their own practice and to evidence. Without these skills professionals will find it difficult to provide 'best practice'. The teaching of EBP should, as far as possible, be integrated into the clinical setting and routine care so that students not only learn the principles and skills, but learn how to incorporate these skills with their own life-long learning and patient care”

from: Sicily Statement on Evidence-based Practice

EPIC: evidence based practice in infection control. The primary objective of the EPIC initiative is to contribute to the development of the evidence base which underpins the practice of infection control through collaborative enquiry.

CEBM (University of Toronto, Canada). The goal of this Web-site is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. This site also serves as a support for the book entitled Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Haynes. The site includes the multidisciplinary syllabi for practicing EBM (with sample scenarios, searches, completed worksheets and CATs for different clinical disciplines), teaching materials, and presentations.

The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international Research and Development Unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital. The formation of the Institute arose from the recognition of a need for a collaborative approach to the evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available" evidence into health care practice.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford, UK). A huge selection of web sites of groups which are actively involved in promoting EBHC around the world, as well as a selection of content sites which contain evidence-based summaries of clinical research, are presented on the Centre's site. The “Teaching EBM” section of the site contains resources for people who are teaching EBM: PowerPoint Presentations, Critical Appraisal Tools, Computer-assisted critical appraisal tool, Statistical Tools.

EBM TUDOR - Home of Evidence-Based Medicine (in English and in Hungarian). The Hungarian TUDOR EBM Project Web-site. The TUDOR Project introduced and implemented EBM at the four Medical Faculties of Hungarian Universities (EBM TUDOR Network) based on British expertise. The project is focusing on teaching of EBM methods, guideline development, clinical pilots for the management of stroke, AMI and depression. The Web-site provides information about project's news, publications, teaching aids, training workshops materials, and links to other useful resources.

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The major product of the Collaboration is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews which is published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library.

Cochrane Library Training Materials. To help with further dissemination of the Cochrane Library, materials have been developed in two forms: guides and training materials, which are available to download from this site. All the materials from that page can be freely downloaded and copied for non-commercial purposes.

Evidence-Based Public Health: Finding and Appraising Relevant Resources. This Continuing Education Course was provided by the Medical Library Association (May 21, 2004). The Web-site includes Course Manual, Course Presentations, and Course Webliography. The purpose of the Evidence-Based Public Health project is to examine the clinical EBM models and assess their effectiveness to the public health literature, to identify any existing evidence-based projects in public health and assess their effectiveness. The outcomes of the project will be: An Evidence-based Public Health Web-site; An electronic publication or database based on the preferred models(s); A training program for public health practitioners introducing them to evidence-based public health practice and literature retrieval methods.

Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. A Spanish Language version of the site "Atrapandola evidencia: Una Introducción de la ScHARR a la prácticabasada en la evidencia en Internet" is also available

nettingtheevidence

Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists

Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine. There are 2 versions of each article in the series, published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal: one for learners of the EBM principle in question and one for their teachers. The learners' version appears also in print in CMAJ, and the related teachers' version is published online only. The online teachers' version gives readers access to a variety of extra features, including interactive teaching exercises and other tools, such as PowerPoint slides.

Barratt A, Wyer PC, Hatala R, McGinn T, Dans AL, Keitz S et al. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat. CMAJ 2004; 171(4):353-358.
Montori VM, Kleinbart J, Newman TB, Keitz S, Wyer PC, Moyer V et al. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 2. Measures of precision (confidence intervals). CMAJ 2004; 171(6):611-615.
McGinn T, Wyer PC, Newman TB, Keitz S, Leipzig R, For GG. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic). CMAJ 2004; 171(11):1369-1373.
Hatala R, Keitz S, Wyer P, Guyatt G, for The Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 4. Assessing heterogeneity of primary studies in systematic reviews and whether to combine their results. CMAJ 2005; 172(5):661-665.

* Some of the links on this page were collected and annotated by Irina Ibragimova for EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network, a project of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA).

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	“Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) requires that decisions about health care are based on the best available, current, valid and relevant evidence. These decisions should be made by those receiving care, informed by the tacit and explicit knowledge of those providing care, within the context of available resources. All health care professionals need to understand the principles of EBP, recognize it in action, implement evidence-based policies, and have a critical attitude to their own practice and to evidence. Without these skills professionals will find it difficult to provide 'best practice'. The teaching of EBP should, as far as possible, be integrated into the clinical setting and routine care so that students not only learn the principles and skills, but learn how to incorporate these skills with their own life-long learning and patient care” from: Sicily Statement on Evidence-based Practice

	EPIC: evidence based practice in infection control. The primary objective of the EPIC initiative is to contribute to the development of the evidence base which underpins the practice of infection control through collaborative enquiry.

	CEBM (University of Toronto, Canada). The goal of this Web-site is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. This site also serves as a support for the book entitled Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Haynes. The site includes the multidisciplinary syllabi for practicing EBM (with sample scenarios, searches, completed worksheets and CATs for different clinical disciplines), teaching materials, and presentations.

	The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international Research and Development Unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital. The formation of the Institute arose from the recognition of a need for a collaborative approach to the evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available" evidence into health care practice.

	Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford, UK). A huge selection of web sites of groups which are actively involved in promoting EBHC around the world, as well as a selection of content sites which contain evidence-based summaries of clinical research, are presented on the Centre's site. The “Teaching EBM” section of the site contains resources for people who are teaching EBM: PowerPoint Presentations, Critical Appraisal Tools, Computer-assisted critical appraisal tool, Statistical Tools.

	EBM TUDOR - Home of Evidence-Based Medicine (in English and in Hungarian). The Hungarian TUDOR EBM Project Web-site. The TUDOR Project introduced and implemented EBM at the four Medical Faculties of Hungarian Universities (EBM TUDOR Network) based on British expertise. The project is focusing on teaching of EBM methods, guideline development, clinical pilots for the management of stroke, AMI and depression. The Web-site provides information about project's news, publications, teaching aids, training workshops materials, and links to other useful resources.

	The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The major product of the Collaboration is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews which is published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library.

	Cochrane Library Training Materials. To help with further dissemination of the Cochrane Library, materials have been developed in two forms: guides and training materials, which are available to download from this site. All the materials from that page can be freely downloaded and copied for non-commercial purposes.

	Evidence-Based Public Health: Finding and Appraising Relevant Resources. This Continuing Education Course was provided by the Medical Library Association (May 21, 2004). The Web-site includes Course Manual, Course Presentations, and Course Webliography. The purpose of the Evidence-Based Public Health project is to examine the clinical EBM models and assess their effectiveness to the public health literature, to identify any existing evidence-based projects in public health and assess their effectiveness. The outcomes of the project will be: An Evidence-based Public Health Web-site; An electronic publication or database based on the preferred models(s); A training program for public health practitioners introducing them to evidence-based public health practice and literature retrieval methods.

	Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. A Spanish Language version of the site "Atrapandola evidencia: Una Introducción de la ScHARR a la prácticabasada en la evidencia en Internet" is also available	nettingtheevidence

	Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists

	Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine. There are 2 versions of each article in the series, published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal: one for learners of the EBM principle in question and one for their teachers. The learners' version appears also in print in CMAJ, and the related teachers' version is published online only. The online teachers' version gives readers access to a variety of extra features, including interactive teaching exercises and other tools, such as PowerPoint slides.
	Barratt A, Wyer PC, Hatala R, McGinn T, Dans AL, Keitz S et al. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat. CMAJ 2004; 171(4):353-358. Montori VM, Kleinbart J, Newman TB, Keitz S, Wyer PC, Moyer V et al. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 2. Measures of precision (confidence intervals). CMAJ 2004; 171(6):611-615. McGinn T, Wyer PC, Newman TB, Keitz S, Leipzig R, For GG. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic). CMAJ 2004; 171(11):1369-1373. Hatala R, Keitz S, Wyer P, Guyatt G, for The Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group. Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 4. Assessing heterogeneity of primary studies in systematic reviews and whether to combine their results. CMAJ 2005; 172(5):661-665.

	* Some of the links on this page were collected and annotated by Irina Ibragimova for EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network, a project of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA).

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