Evidence based Health Care (EBHC)

This tutorial gives step by step instructions for each stage of a structured search. Use it as a "guide on the side" - follow along, or build your own!

These modules of 2-3 minutes each demonstrate the different search techniques and strategies for effective searching in Medline on the Ovid platform. These techniques are transferable to other databases, both on the Ovid platform and through other search engines.

This tutorial gives step by step instructions for each stage of a structured search. Use it as a "guide on the side" - follow along, or build your own!

These modules of 2-3 minutes each demonstrate the different search techniques and strategies for effective searching in CINAHL on the Ebsco platform. These techniques are transferable to other databases, both on the Ebsco platform and through other search engines.

Includes individual modules that deal with learning, doing, and teaching EBM as well as EBM toolbox, CATs, levels of evidence, glossary, etc.

Resources that can be used to practice 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, Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM by Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou, and R. Brian Haynes.

Intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine - from Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.

This tutorial is to support undergraduate medical students in their search for answers for their patients. It outlines the steps needed to find and use the research literature to inform decisions about the best care of individual patients - from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

From the University of Illinois at Chicago

From the University of British Columbia Library

HLWIKI International

Handouts and PowerPoint from March 2012 workshop

A practical tool for searching the grey literature from Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

A five-minute interactive introduction to evidence-based medicine - from Boston University Medical Center.

A collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. The appraisal tools are adapted from the Users' Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA - from the University of Alberta.