Learning Zone is currently under development. It will contain content useful for anyone undertaking self directed learning about evidence-based methods. http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/learnzone.html 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT The BetsBets database is maintained by the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. http://www.bestbets.org/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT is a storage and retrieval facility for a collection of CATs (Critically Appraised Topics). You can download the CATmaker, software which helps you to create CATs. http://www.cebm.net/cats.asp 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT provides overviews and CATs on many acute care topics http://www.eboncall.org/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine's aim is to improve patient care by developing and promoting evidence-based health care, and to provide support and resources to anyone who wants to practice or teach EBM. This section contains a selection of useful tools to help you practice and teach EBM. * Levels of evidence * Critical appraisal worksheets * Explanations and examples for Pre-test probability, SpPin and SnNout, Likelihood Ratios and NNTs * CATmaker * All-purpose 2x2 table analyser, interactive nomogram for interpreting likelihood ratios * Excel spreadsheet for calculating 95% confidence intervals http://www.cebm.net/toolbox.asp 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT This is a guide developed by the Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago, to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature. http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/publ.shtml 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT complete set of Users' Guides, originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), to assist clinicians’ reading of the medical literature. http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT modularlearning project meant to teach the rationale behind practise of EBM. It is worth registering. http://ebm-unity.pc.unicatt.it/moodle/login/index.php 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT RevMan is the Cochrane Collaboration's own systematic review software for producing Cochrane-type reviews. Technical support is only provided to the members of the Cochrane Collaboration but the software is freely available from the Cochrane Collaboration web site. http://www.cc-ims.net/RevMan 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT StatsDirect is a very easy to use, accurate and affordable statistical software. A special emphasis is placed upon Epidemiology and statistical methods for health research. Calculations employ state-of-the-art statistical and computational methods, and StatsDirect contains a statistical guide that supports learning, re-learning and scientific report writing with statistical knowledge. http://www.statsdirect.co.uk/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT What is CASP? The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme is a programme within Learning & Development at the Public Health Resource Unit. Since 1993 the programme has helped to develop an evidence-based approach in health and social care. http://www.update-software.com/publications/CASP/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT About CEBM Canada The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/teach/materials/caworksheets.htm 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT About CEBM Canada The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise 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 Formulating Answerable Clinical Questions Searching for the Best Evidence Critical Appraisal of the Evidence Applying Evidence to Patients http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/practise/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT PREVALENCE, SENSITIVITY, and SPECIFICITY: http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc/bayes.html 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR): Relative Risk Reduction (RRR%): Odds Ratio: Number Needed to Treat (NNT) http://www.healthcare.ubc.ca/calc/clinsig.html 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT A Simple Example: AR, ARR, RR, RRR, OR, NNT http://www.intensivecare.com/ARRRRex.html 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT What Do the Numbers Mean? Why do you and your patients need to know the difference between relative risk (RR), relative risk reduction (RRR), absolute risk reduction (ARR), and number needed to treat (NTT)? http://www.ti.ubc.ca/pages/letter15.htm 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT What is Bandolier? An independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists, has become the premier source of evidence based healthcare information in the UK and worldwide for both healthcare professionals and consumers. The award winning electronic version of Bandolier (www.ebandolier.com) now has over one million visitors each month from all over the world. http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band55/b55-6.html 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT