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• ACP Journal Club
Evidence Based Medicine for better patient care from the American College of Physicians. Limited access. Members of the ACP and subscribers have full access.

• BestBETs: Best Evidence Topics
Designed to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic literature review. Emergency medicine focus, from Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary.

• CEBM - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
Information, resources and techniques composed by CEBM of Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford.

• Centre for Evidence Based Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CEBPGAN)
EBM resource centre for clinicians involoved in Gastroenterology and Nutrition including Gastroenterologists and Dietitians; maintain databases of RCT's, systematic reviews, guidelines and critically appraised topics (CATs) in paediatric gastroenterology/nutrition. Based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead (Australia).

• Clinical Evidence
Summarises current knowledge about the prevention and treatment of disease, based on appraisal of systematic reviews and randomized clinical trials.

• Cochrane Collaboration
Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care. General information, help for newcomers and guidelines, manuals and software.

• CTFPHC (Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care): Evidence-Based Clinical Prevention
Systematic reviews and evidence-based recommendations on a variety of preventive health interventions (with recent guidelines in oncology, pediatrics, osteoporosis, menopause/HRT). from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC).

• EBOC: Evidence-Based On-Call
Collection of evidence-based critical appraisals and clinical guidelines. From the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.

• Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
Provides references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, online databases, and practice tools in evidence-based medicine, from the New York Academy of Medicine.

• Evidencewatch
Portal with links to evidence-based resources in current medicine and complimentary and alternative medicine therapies, some original material in the form of commentaries. Compiled by Constantine Kaniklidis, medical researcher.

• G-I-N - Guidelines International Network
The Guidelines International Network, an international not-for-profit association, promotes systematic development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and their application into practice, with a G-I-N Health Topics Collection of guidelines linked to original source.

• General Practice Notebook
The principles and applications are explained, with examples provided for different specialties.

• Golden Hour - Medical Information center
Israel based tool for Evidence Based Medicine information retrieval. Free medical databases; medical software; consulting services.

• HealthWatch
Predominantly consumer-oriented site dedicated to treatment (including alternative medicine) assessment and testing through rigorous evidence-based clinical trials, with online HealthWatch Newsletter covering a variety of evidence-based medicine topics. Also with an annual HealthWatch prize for critical appraisal of clinical trials protocols.

• HerbMed
An evidence-based database with hyperlinked access to the supporting scientific data (under the category 'evidence for activity') underlying the use of reviewed herb; maintained by the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Bethesda MD.

• InfoPOEMs
Delivers daily Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters (DailyPOEMs) by email and produces the InfoRetriever database system of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information next to a regular print newsletter 'Evidence-Based Practice'.

• Informed Health Online
Updated evidence-based health information for consumers and clinicians, as well as education about health research and evidence.

• Just the Berries
Large collection of evidence-based commentaries and reviews of family practice topics by clinical experts. 'The berries' = the critical points of a given topic. From St. Martha's Regional Hospital, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

• Research Council for Complementary Medicine - RCCM
They are currently relocating our offices so we regret that we are unable to deal with telephone inquiries at present.

• TripDatabase
Searchable medical database with emphasis on evidence based medicine, including Cochrane and Bandolier reviews, clinical guidelines, peer reviewed journals, and patient information.