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Posted on 15th July 2020 by Emma Carter

There are lots of useful EBM-related resources out there. We’ve reviewed and mentioned a lot of them in the blog already, so here they all are together. S4BE relies on blog posts submitted by students, so if you would like to write a review of those as yet un-blogged about resources, then please email us at: general@students4bestevidence.net.

In the library you will find resources relating to:

• Introductions and overviews of EBM
• Key steps in EBM – Asking Questions, Searching for Evidence, Appraising Research, Acting on the Evidence, and Evaluating your Practice.
• Statistics in EBM

• An introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine from Cochrane UK
  Online presentation / 34 minutes
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• An introduction to evidence-based medicine
  Slideshow / 5 minutes
  Link to blog post
• What is Evidence-Based Medicine? (pdf)
  Free article / 1 hour
  Link to blog post
• Educational resources from the CEBM
  Website
  Link to blog post / Link to blog post
• An introduction to the work of James Lind
  Video / 10 minutes
  Link to blog post
• An interesting case study, explaining the life cycle of a Cochrane systematic review
  Prezi / 10 minutes
  Link to blog post
• Chris Cates’ EBM Website
  Educational Resource
  Link to blog post
• E-learning course on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
  E-learning / 1.5 hours
  Email us if you would like to review this resource

• An organisation committed to improving the quality of research reports
  Online library
  Link to blog post
• NIHR Clinical Trials Toolkit
  Educational Resource
  Link to blog post

• A database aimed at helping users translate research into practice
  Database
  Link to blog posts
• BMJ Evidence Alerts
  Database
  Link to blog post
• The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Website
  Link to blog post
• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries
  Plain language summaries
  Link to blog post
• The Cochrane Library
  Database
  Link to blog post / Link to blog post
• Epistemonikos
  Multilingual database
  Link to blog post
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
  Databases
  Link to blog post
• GP Notebook
  Medical Reference (Paywall)
  Link to blog post
• Comprehensive medical information provided by the NHS
  Website
  Link to blog post
• Guideline and accompanying technical report on peer reviewing search strategies for evidence-based systematic reviews and health technology assessments (pdf)
  Free article
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• An interesting study assessing the impact of searching clinical trial registries in systematic reviews (pdf)
  Free article
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• OpenMD – medical information search engine
  Medical Reference
  Email us if you would like to review this resource

• National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools Learning Centre Free, interactive, and self-directed online modules on evidence-informed decision-making concepts using case based examples (e.g. Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews)
  Online learning modules
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• Information on how to understand and evaluate health treatments (Testing Treatments Interactive)
  Website and book
  Link to blog post / Link to blog post
• CASP Appraisal Tools
  Training Tools
  11 questions to help you make sense of a trial (pdf)
  11 questions to help you make sense of a case control study (pdf)
  12 questions to help you make sense of a diagnostic test study (pdf)
  Link to blog posts
• Catalogue of bias
  Website
  Link to blog post
• BMJ Articles on How to Read Research Papers
  Articles
  Link to blog post
• Translating critical appraisal of a manuscript into meaningful peer review
  Free online course / 12 lectures
  Link to blog post
• Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research
  Free online course / 16 hours
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• A book about how to understand medical health information through statistics (Know your chances)
  Online book
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• A Cochrane tool to assess the risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions
  Website
  Email us if you would like to review this resource

• Acting on the Evidence

  • Shared Decision Making Animated Short
    Video / Less than 2 minutes
    Link to blog post
  • The challenges of over-diagnosis and over-treatment
    Conference Talk / 1hr 40mins
    Link to blog post
  • Communicating potential harms and benefits to patients (Risk Communication)
    E-learning course / 2 hours
    Link to blog post
  • Making health decisions: what’s best for you?
    Video / 10 minutes
    Link to blog post

  Evaluating Your Practice

  • • Evidence-based medicine toolkit (including self-evaluation)
      Website (log in required)
      Email us if you would like to review this resource

• Seeing Theory Making statistics more accessible to a wider range of students through interactive visualizations
  Website
  Link to blog post
• Understanding Research Evidence (URE) Videos
  Brief (3 to 12 minutes) plain language videos exploring key concepts in evidence use (e.g. Forest Plots: Understanding a Meta-Analysis in 5 minutes or Less)
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• Interventions and assessment tools addressing key concepts people need to know to appraise claims about treatment effects: a systematic mapping review
  Free article / 1 hour
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• A series of accessible videos about statistics
  Website
  Email us if you would like to review this resource
• Videos on understanding and communicating statistics (Winton Centre)
  YouTube videos
  Email us if you would like to review this resource

• • An archive of presentations relating to consumer involvement in EBM
    Archive
    Link to blog post
  • An organisation supporting professionals wishing to provide quality evidence-based information and support
    Organisation
    Link to blog post
  • Assorted BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine resource
    Archive
    Link to blog post
  • Statistically Funny
    Satirical EBM-related Cartoons
    Email us if you would like to review this resource

• • The Healthcare Hashtag Project
    Hasghtag Aggregator
    Link to blog post
  • A funny video about the need for EBM
    Video / less than 5 minutes
    Link to blog post
  • What is the NICE Threshold (includes an introduction to health economics evaluation)
    Video / 10 minutes
    Email us if you would like to review this resource

This page is continually developed as we discover new resources. If you know of some useful resources that are missing from this page, please get in touch so that they can be added.

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