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Resources: Evidence-Based Practice for Physical Therapy
Resources about EBP on the Web
Center for Evidence-Based Medicine--Oxford
University of Washington Health Links
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine – University Health Network
Evidence Based Occupational Therapy
Applying EBM to Online Searching
Locating Evidence
PubMed (USP users); PubMed (non-USP users)
A free way to search Medline, the world's largest collection of biomedical literature. Use the PubMed tutorials to learn to use all its features. Create a "My NCBI" account to keep up on the latest evidence on topics you're interested in.
A project of the American Physical Therapy Association, a cooperative effort to provide critiques of studies in areas of concern to PT's. Available free to APTA members.
Jointly done by the University of
Sydney Physiotherapy Department and the Australian Physiotherapy Association
and partially funded by the Australian Motor Accidents Authority. It attempts
to include all systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials that are
of use to practice in physical therapy.
U.S. Department Health & Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Quality & Research
The agency funds 12 centers across the United States for the purpose of "synthesizing scientific evidence to improve quality and effectiveness in health care."
Abstracts can be searched without a subscription, also Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials. USP users may search through Ovid.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
Critical analyses of systematic reviews. USP users may search through Ovid.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Compiled by a government agency; guidelines included must meet certain criteria.
Produced by the University of Texas Health Sciences center at San Antonio. Better than its clunky interface indicates. It provides guided searching to Medline as well as metasearching on the Internet to websites with reliable information.
Resource for Critiquing Research
Trochim, William M. The Research Methods Knowledge Base.
A basic textbook in evaluating research. Latest edition (online or in print) must be purchased.
Collections of
Evidence
(available through subscription)
Many hospitals and universities (including USP) have subscriptions to Ovid, which includes links to Cochrane full text from Medline and the fulltext of articles from DARE and the ACP Journal Club. If you have access, check it out.
Therapeutic recommendations based on evidence. Prepared by BMJ.
7000 topics available.
2500 topics available..
Created by the American College of Physicians.
Journal Articles
EBM articles by Greenhalgh,
from July through September, 1997 BMJ
BMJ July 1997;315:180-183 (19 July) : How to read a paper: Medline databases
BMJ July 1997;315:243-246 (26 July) : How to read a paper: Getting your bearings
BMJ Aug 1997;315:305-308; 422-425 (2 August) : How to read a paper: Statistics
for the nonstatistician
BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 480 - 483 :How to read a paper: Papers that report drug
trials
BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 540 - 543 How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic
or screening tests
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 596 - 599 How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what
things cost (economic analyses)
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 672 - 675 How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other
papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
BMJ, Sep 1997; 315: 740 - 743 How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers
(qualitative research)
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