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EBM case study

The metaRegister of Controlled Trials is a searchable, international database of ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. At present, the mRCT also contains some completed trials. Offering access to more than 10,000 records, the mRCT is free

The authors evaluated two hypothetical interventions to prevent hip fracture in the overall female population and in a high-risk female population. For one intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating treatment with bisphosphonates, and for the other intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating those of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Stretching before or after exercising does not confer protection from muscle soreness

Archive Copy 2003: Overview of the subject

Need Athens Password. Evidence-Based On-Call is a database developed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of Oxford. In the early days of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, it became clear that young doctors, although very keen to practise evidence-based decision-making, were unable to find the evidence they needed, particularly when it was needed most - namely, in the middle of the night when senior staff were not on the premises, or librarians were not available, or when libraries were sometimes locked across a dark and unsafe car park. For this reason, a project called the Evidence-Based On-Call project was developed to promote and facilitate what was called EBM at 2.00 am.

Archive Copy: 2004 Hi Quality website, launched in March 2002 and designed to raise standards in health information. Hi Quality should be used if you are: looking for health information and require guidance on how to check its quality; producing health information and require guidance on how to assure quality standards.

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Archive Site: i-medicine. This site is a portal, providing links to high quality sites related to evidence based medicine, medical informatics and audit. New version promised in Sept 2005

The Clinical Trials section of this site is divided into lists of ongoing clinical trials in active recruitment at Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Bayview Center.

Fantastic set of over 3500 algorithms for medicine. Includes sections on musculoskeletal and trauma. Contains downloadable documents pertaining to many outcome scoring systems.

MDA is the world's largest non-governmental sponsor of research seeking the causes of and effective treatments for neuromuscular diseases, sponsoring some 400 research projects annually.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) is a registered charity whose aim is to review clinical practice and identify potentially remediable factors in the practice of anaesthesia, surgery and other invasive medical procedures. The aim is to look at the quality of the delivery of care and not specifically the causation of death. The commentary and recommendations made in the annual reports are based on peer review of the data, questionnaires and other records submitted to us. NCEPOD is not a research study based on differences against a control population and does not produce any kind of comparison between clinicians or hospitals.

National Electronic Library for Health Physiotherpy Portal. The National electronic Library for Health Programme is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.

National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.