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Evidence-Based Healthcare

  • Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library
  • Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice [Canadian Centres for Health Evidence [CHE]]
    Contains "the complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The CHE continues to maintain the full text pre-publication version of this series on behalf of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group with permission from the journal."
  • Core Library for Evidence Based Practice [UK]
    One of the "Netting the Evidence" pages compiled and maintained by Andrew Booth. "Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals."
  • Glossary of Evidence Based Medicine Terms
    An A to Z listing of EBM terms by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University Health Network.

Internet Tutorials

  • Intute Virtual Training Site [University of Bristol, UK]
    Contains free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.
  • Internet Tutorials
    Instructional guides on the Internet and World Wide Web for the academic and research community.

PubMed

  • PubMed Basics (PDF 85 KB). [US National Library of Medicine]
  • PubMed Tutorial [US National Library of Medicine]
    A web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) journal literature search system.
  • PubMed Ten Tips [University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library]
    self-study or reference guides to searching PubMed.

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