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Web Links
The following are a list of reliable Web Links organized by chapter. These links can be used to research additional information on selected topics discussed in your textbook.
Chapter 1: What is Evidence-Based Practice
You connect to the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).
National Guideline Clearinghouse
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The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. The Cochrane Library contains regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases. Now available in a new interface at Wiley InterScience.
The Cochrane Collaboration
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The Joanna Briggs Institute, which began in Australia, works with researchers, clinicians and managers to:
* identify those areas where health professionals most urgently require summarized evidence on which to base their practice
* carry out and facilitate systematic reviews of international research
* identify the need for, and promote the conduct of, multi-site research studies in areas where good evidence is not available
* prepare easy to read summaries of best practice in the form of Best Practice Information Sheets, based on the results of systematic reviews
* design and conduct targeted dissemination activities in areas where (or when) good evidence is available
* promote broad dissemination strategies to ensure that findings are made available to the profession, all levels of the health care system, governments and service provider units
* promote broad dissemination strategies to ensure that findings are made available to the consumers of health care
* evaluate the effects of selected Best Practice Information Sheets on practice variability, health outcomes and costs
* design, promote and deliver short courses in evidence based practice for clinicians, researchers, managers, lecturers, teachers and students; and
* offer direct, fee for service consultancies to health service provider agencies to develop customised evidence-based practice training and evidence-based policy and procedure manuals.
Joanna Briggs Institute
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Agency for Research and Quality Evidence Reports and Technology Assessments
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Clinical Evidence
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DynaMed
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InfoRetriever
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UpToDate
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Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
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EMBASE
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Medline and PubMed
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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PsycINFO
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SearchMedica
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Practice Guidelines National Guideline Clearing House
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Teaching Learning Resources for Evidence-Based Practice (2002)
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); the National Library of Medicine and NIH
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Simply described, the goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information.
National Institutes of Health
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Provides information regarding a broad range of topics as they relate to creating guidelines for evidence-based practice.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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