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Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
The goal of each Cochrane Review is to provide a systematic, critical review of all the evidence available on a particular controversial clinical issue. The abstracts included in the database address a wide range of clinical issues.
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse. A searchable database. Some of the resources obtainable through this site are several hundred pages long.
PedsCCM and intensivecare.com provide this extensive set of links related to evidence-based medicine. Included are sites explaining evidence-based medicine and sites giving advice on reading papers and analyzing research results.
Drug/Herbal Information
Freely-available database providing access to professional- and patient-oriented information. RxList’s fuzzy search helps identify mis-spelled drug names. Price information is also available.
Government sponsored consumer information site that includes a large amount of information on drugs, supplements and herbs.
Dictionaries
Taber’s Online Medical Dictionary
Includes access to the online version of the well-known Collegiate Dictionary and the simlarly familiar Collegiate Thesaurus.
Includes access to an online English dictionary, access to the online version of Roget’s Thesaurus and lists of links to dictionaries in other languages.
“[A] dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.”
Acronyms for Health Information Resources
Acronyms for the names of global health information and health data resources. Some acronyms are linked to related Web sites. This acronym list is not meant to assist those trying to read the writings of physicians utilizing the many acronyms/abbreviations in routine medical use (e.g. WDWN, CTL, CD4, CD8, GSW, HRRR).
Provides quick access to definitions of terms frequently encountered by those reading the modern biology literature. The Web site provides access to the Third edition of the dictionary which was published in 1999.
Clinical Trial Information
The U.S. National Institute of Health and the National Library of Medicine collaborate to provide this searchable database of clinical research studies.
Clinical Alerts and Advisories
From the U.S. National Institute of Health expedite release of research findings that could significantly affect patient morbidity and mortality.
Clinical Trial Listing Service
The site is designed to be a resource for patients interested in participating in clinical trials, doctors whose patient/s might benefit from inclusion in a trial and for research professionals. It includes an international listing of more than 5,200 clinical trials actively recruiting patients. You can search the trial database by disease and geographic region.
Statistical Resources
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
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