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Posted on 15th July 2020 by Emma Carter
Learning Resources
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
Asking
Questions
Searching for
Evidence
Appraising
Research
Acting on
the Evidence
Evaluating
Your Practice
- 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 -
- 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
Email us if you would like to review this resource - A life changing health decision: Sarah’s story
Video / 10 minutes
Email us if you would like to review this resource
- Shared Decision Making Animated Short
- 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
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- 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
- An archive of presentations relating to consumer involvement in EBM
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- 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
- The Healthcare Hashtag Project
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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