Evidence-based medicine and health care

Books

Bosch, F. Xavier, editor. Archie Cochrane: Back to the front.

Cochrane AL. Effectiveness and Efficiency. Random Reflections on Health Services. London: Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1972. (Reprinted in 1999 for Nuffield Trust by the Royal Society of Medicine Press, London)

Cochrane AL. 1931-1971: a critical review, with particular reference to the medical profession. In: Medicines for the year 2000. London: Office of Health Economics, 1979, 1-11.

Cochrane AL. Foreword. In: Chalmers I, Enkin M, Keirse MJNC, eds. Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Cochrane AL, Blythe, M. One Man's Medicine. An autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane. Cardiff University, 2009. (paperback edition)

Gray JAM. Evidence-based healthcare: how to make health policy and management decisions. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1997.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. 3rd edition London: Blackwell BMJ Books, 2006.

Guyatt G, Evidence Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice. Chicago: American Medical Association, 2002.

Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade M, Cook D. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. 2nd edition (Jama & Archives Journals). McGraw-Hill. Professional, 2008.

Straus SE, Tetroe J, Graham ID. Knowledge Translation in Health Care: Moving from Evidence to Practice. Oxford, Chichester, Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-8106-8

Straus SE, Glasziou P, Richardson WS, Haynes RB. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EbM. 4th edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingston Elsevier, 2011.

Tröhler U. To improve the evidence of medicine: the 18th century British origins of a critical approach. Edinburgh: Royal College of Physicians, 2000.

Articles

Grimes DA, Schulz KF. An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land.The Lancet 2002; 359(9300):57-61

Kitto S, Villanueva EV, Chesters J, Petrovic A, Waxman BP, Smith JA. Surgeons' Attitudes towards and Usage of Evidence-based Medicine in Surgical Practice: a Pilot Study. ANZ J Surg 2007; 77:231-36

Pildal J, Hrobjartsson A, Jorgensen KJ, Hilden J, Altman DG, Gotzsche GC. Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of randomized trials. Int J Epidemiol. 2007;36:847-57

Reed DA, Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Levine RB, Kern DE, Wright SM. Association Between Funding and Quality of Published medical Education Research. JAMA. 2007;298(9):1002-9

Sackett D. Too many experts spoil the science (Health & Medical News online)

Student BMJ March 1998: Profiling the EBM man - Professor Sackett

Series in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association:

Virgilio RF, Chiapa AL, Palmarozzi EA. Evidence-based medicine, part 1. An introduction to creating an answerable question and searching the evidence. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):295-7.

Cardarelli R, Virgilio RF, Taylor L. Evidence-based medicine, part 2. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on therapy. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):299-303.

Schranz DA, Dunn MA. Evidence-based medicine, part 3. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on diagnosis. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):304-9.

Cardarelli R, Seater MM. Evidence-based medicine, part 4. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on harm. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):310-4.

Cardarelli R, Oberdorfer JR. Evidence-based medicine, part 5. An introduction to critical appraisal of articles on prognosis. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):315-9.

Sanderlin BW, AbdulRahim N. Evidence-based medicine, part 6. An introduction to critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2007 Aug;107(8):321-4.

Online resources

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)

Bandolier "evidence-based thinking about health care" 

Berkeley Systematic Reviews Group, Berkely, CA, USA 

Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health, University College of London, UK

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University, UK

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, National Institute for Health Research, UK

The Campbell Collaboration : systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare

CREATE Framework for classifying EBP assessment tools (part of the Sicily Statement, see below)

EbM Talks and Resources at the Evidence-based Medicine for Primary Care and Internal Medicine (a BMJ journal) ... includes copies of talks or resources related to evidence-based medicine, all accessible in their original formats, and free to use by all readers.

ECRI Institute - Comparative Effectiveness Resource Center (USA)

International Society for Evidence-Based Health Care - Fostering and promoting Evidence-Based Health Care Globally

The James Lind Library : a joint project of the UK Cochrane Centre and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh introducing people to the characteristics of fair tests and illustrating how these tests have evolved.

Sicily Statement on evidence based practice : The first Sicily Statement provides an international consensus on the definition of EBP, skills needed to practice EBP, and minimum requirements for training health professionals in EBP; the second 'Sicily Statement' on EBP addresses classification and development of EBP learning assessment tools.

Society for Clinical Trials, Philadelphia, PA, USA