EBPP Analysis Guides
& Tools
EBPP Analysis Guides:
How to Read a Paper: the Basics of Evidence Based
Medicine
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/read.shtml
This series is from the British Medical Journal and
details the various types of papers in the medical literature.
Users' Guides to Evidence Based
Practice
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp
The following is the complete set of Users' Guides,
originally published as a series in the Journal of the American
Medical Association. The
Centre for Health Evidence continues to maintain the full text
pre-publication version of this series on behalf of the Evidence-Based
Medicine Working Group.
Users' Guides Interactive: An online tool to guide
clinicians in the appraisal and application of evidence into their
everyday practice.
http://www.usersguides.org/default.asp
Based on the popular Users’ Guides series in
JAMA come state-of-the-art products on evidence-based clinical
practice, edited by Drs Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, and Robert
Hayward with contributions from more than fifty of the most renowned
evidence-based medicine (EBM) educators and practitioners in the world.
[access restricted]
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
(Toronto)
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/
This Toronto based organization includes
tutorials, educational material, calculators and other tools for
teaching and practicing EBM.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
(Oxford)
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/
This Oxford based organization includes
tutorials, educational material, calculators and other tools for
teaching and practicing EBM.
Appraisal Worksheets, Ebling Library,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/subject_guides_toolkits/subject_guides/ebhc/
appraisalworksheets.cfm
These appraisal worksheets for diagnosis, therapy, etc.
are designed to help clinicians formulate clinical questions and
evaluate the research they find during their search.
Series of four articles on basic
statistics
Guyatt G, Jaeschke R, Heddle N, Cook D, Shannon H, & Walter S. (1995).
Basic statistics for clinicians: 1. Hypothesis testing. Canadian
Medical Association Journal, 152, 27-32.
Guyatt G, Jaeschke R, Heddle N, Cook D, Shannon H, & Walter S. (1995).
Basic statistics for clinicians: 2. Interpreting study results:
confidence intervals. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 152,
169-173.
Jaeschke R, Guyatt G, Shannon H, Walter S, Cook D, & Heddle N. (1995).
Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment:
Measures of association. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 152,
351-357.
Guyatt G, Walter S, Shannon H, Cook D, Jaeschke R, & Heddle N. (1995).
Basic statistics for clinicians: 4. Correlation and regression.
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 152, 497-504.
Statistics at Square One (9th ed.) by Swinscow,
revised by M J Campbell, University of
Southampton, published by BMJ in 1997.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/statsbk/index.shtml
EBPP Statistical Tools:
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
(Toronto) Stats Calculator
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/practise/ca/statscal/
The Stats Calculator is designed to
calculate relevant statistics for diagnostic studies, prospective
studies, case control studies, and randomized control trials.
UIC Diagnostic Test Calculator
http://araw.mede.uic.edu/cgi-bin/testcalc.pl
This calculator can determine diagnostic
test characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios)
and/or determine the post-test probability of disease given given the
pre-test probability and test characteristics. Given sample sizes,
confidence intervals are also computed.
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Bayesian Calculator
http://www.healthcare.ubc.ca/calc/bayes.html
The UBC Bayesian Calculator can be used to
calculate statistical indicators with data you already have.
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Clinical Significance Calculator
http://www.healthcare.ubc.ca/calc/clinsig.html
The UBC Clinical Significance Calculator
can be used to calculate clinical statistical indicators with data you
already have.
The EBM Toolbox, Centre for Evidence
Based Medicine (Oxford)
http://www.cebm.net/toolbox.asp
The EBM
Toolbox is an assortment of materials which are very useful for
practitioners of EBM, including general
guidelines and specific tools and data such as calculations for
likelihood ratios and pretest probabilities.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
(NQMC)
http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/
NQMC, sponsored by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a public repository for
evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
*Descriptions of
web sites are either direct quotes or adaptations from those provided on
the respective sites.
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