WebGuide

Evidence-based medicine

Bandolier www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier

This site summarises systematic reviews of randomised trials by searching Medline and Pubmed. Bandolier Knowledge Bazaar assembles stories from Bandolier under discrete headings, such as ‘healthy living’.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/cebm The Centre has been established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. The site provides links to Critically Appraised Topics and also to evidence based journals such as Evidence-Based Mental Health.

The Cochrane Library www.cochrane.co.uk is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. It is published quarterly on CD-ROM and on the internet, and is distributed on a subscription basis. The abstracts of Cochrane Reviews are available without charge and can be browsed or searched. The Cochrane Library includes The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR); The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR) and other sources of information. CDSR looks at regularly updated reviews of the effects of health care and DARE provides critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere. CCTR gives bibliographic information on controlled trials and other sources of information covers the science of reviewing research and evidence-based health care.

Media sites

The BBC's www.bbc.co.uk is an up-to-date site containing a wide range of current news items. A useful facility is the search option. A recent search of the BBC Education site found eight recent articles and programmes related to psychiatry.

The Times, www.the-times.co.uk , internet edition is updated daily at about 2 am London time with virtually the complete content of the printed edition - as it has been since January 1996. The site includes The Times, The Sunday Times and the Times Educational, Higher Educational and Literary supplements.

The Telegraph's www.telegraph.co.uk is the oldest newspaper website and is rather more detailed than the Times site. It has a number of links including a daily health page and education site. You need to register your details online after which you can access various articles on the education site. Recent articles have included an interview with Professor Anthony Clare prior to his new radio series. The site also has a useful search facility, which can be used to identify mental health sites of current interest.

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