Resources for Research and Independent Scholarly Activities

  • Reading and Interpreting Medical Articles as well as Basic Medical Statistics, EBM
  • American College of Physicians, Physicians Information and Education Resource — Evidence-based medicine.
  • Bandolier Site, UK — Understanding likelihood ratio, pre/post test probabilities, etc.
  • BETs (Best Evidence Topics) — Collection of evidence-based answers to an array of clinical conditions.
  • Brief Evidence-Based Reviews, ACP Journal Club
  • Center for Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Clinical Decision Making Calculators, University of Oklahoma
  • Diagnostic Test Calculator, University of Illinois
  • Evidence and Diagnostics, Bandolier
  • Evidence-Based Links, Johns Hopkins University
  • Evidence-Based Medicine from the UK
  • Evidence-Based Medicine Overview — What It Is and What It Isn’t, BMJ
  • Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Wisconsin
  • How to Access a Scientific Article, LSU
  • How to Determine Value of a New Diagnostic Test
  • How to Read a Scientific Article, BMJ
  • How to Read an Article on a Diagnostic Test, University of Pittsburgh
  • How to Read Statistics for the Non-Statistician, BMJ
  • How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test
  • How to Use an Article About Disease Probability
  • How to Use an Article About Disease Probability and Differential Diagnosis, Centre for Health Evidence
  • JAMA and Lancet Articles on How to Read Medical Literature, University of California, San Francisco
  • Open Epi — Web site featuring explanation of commonly used statistical methods as well as easy-to-use Statistics Tools.
  • Statistics and More, University of Toronto
  • Statistic Calculator and Lots of Other EBM Stuff, University of Toronto
  • The Cochrane Collaboration — Evidence-based medicine.
  • Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) EBM Database