On this page are links to recommended websites, organisations and resources, relating to evidence-based healthcare, statistics and research.
If you know of a useful resource or website, that is not covered below, please contact us and we’ll see if we can add it to our list.
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content. Their motto is ‘Find evidence fast’.
As well as research evidence Trip also allows clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.
*NEW* -a free CASP app where you can get TRIP easily on your mobile phone
A mobile app called BestEvidence that enables users to get access to the best available evidence at the time it is needed. It works by accessing the TRIP database which searches many resources, including PubMed and the Cochrane Library. A special free CASP version of BestEvidence is available. To get this on your mobile phone open the web browser on your phone and go to www.BestEvidence.Info which will take you to the page where you can register an account. (BestEvidence can also be used on a table or desktop computer.) To get the BestEvidence icon to appear on your phone (so that you don’t have to go to your web browser every time) simple select “Add to home screen” from the browser’s menu so that it works like any other app.
Risky Talk features conversations with the world’s top experts in risk and evidence communication addressing urgent, practical challenges: How can doctors communicate the risks and benefits of medical treatment? How should scientists communicate evidence about climate change? How can journalists make numbers meaningful to readers? How should government institutions convey important statistics?
Hosted by David Spiegelhalter
Produced by Ilan Goodman for the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge.
Understanding Research Evidence (11 Videos)
Understanding and interpreting research evidence is an important part of practicing evidence-informed public health. You need to understand some basic concepts. This series of short videos explains some important terms that you are likely to encounter when looking at research evidence.
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools – McMaster University, Canada
Understanding Health Research is a tool designed to help people understand and review published health research to decide how dependable and relevant a piece of research is. The tool was developed by researchers at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, in collaboration with two other MRC Units and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Evidently Cochrane aims to make Cochrane evidence really accessible, and to encourage discussion about it, through weekly blogs, which usually feature new or updated Cochrane reviews on a health topic. It is for everyone who is interested in finding and using the best quality evidence to inform decisions about health.
CONSORT stands for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
Quick summaries of evidence-based medicine. A group of physicians that have developed a framework and rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms as well as a system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study. They only use the highest quality, evidence-based studies (frequently, but not always Cochrane Reviews), and accept no outside funding or advertisements.
Visual Rx is free software to convert Odds Ratios into Numbers Needed to Treat. This was designed to help with the interpretation of results from Systematic Reviews and clinical trials by producing a graphical display demonstrating the impact of treatment if it were given to 100 people with the relevant condition. Other pages on this site link to a series of articles written for Update and Prescriber and Doctor on understanding statistics and critical appraisal and a variety of prescribing issues. Also a Bibliography of some books helpful for those who want to read more.
Want to get high quality research evidence to inform your health decisions quickly?
Professor Amanda Burls, a former director of the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, has produced a mobile app called BestEvidence that enables users to get access to the best available evidence at the time it is needed. It works by accessing the TRIP database which searches many resources, including PubMed and the Cochrane Library. A special free CASP version of BestEvidence is available. To get this on your mobile phone open the web browser on your phone and go to www.BestEvidence.Info which will take you to the page where you can register an account. (BestEvidence can also be used on a table or desktop computer.) To get the BestEvidence icon to appear on your phone (so that you don’t have to go to your web browser every time) simple select “Add to home screen” from the browser’s menu so that it works like any other app.
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