Information Resources for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Evidence-based guidelines
- Systematic reviews
- Evidence-based health technology assessment
- Evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions
Evidence-based guidelines
United Kingdom
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines
Department of Health - National Service Frameworks
Outside the UK
National Guideline Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, NGC is an initiative of the USA's Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Canadian Medical Association Clinical Practice Guidelines
NB: requires registration
Systematic reviews
Published systematic reviews
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Effective Healthcare bulletins and other systematic reviews
The Cochrane Library
for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
Links to systematic reviews and other evidence
The TRIP database
A meta-search engine that searches across more than 50 sites of high quality medical information
Bandolier
The electronic version of the evidence-based healthcare journal
Health Evidence Bulletins Wales
Summaries of recent research evidence within a subject area e.g. Cardiovascular Diseases
Evidence-based health technology assessment
United Kingdom
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Technology Appraisals
NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme
A national R&D programme for the NHS
Outside the UK
National Library of Medicine - Health Services/Technology Assessment
New Zealand Health Technology Assessment