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Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the integration of clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information.

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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) develops, promotes and disseminates better evidence for healthcare.
Evidence-Based Medicine: An Oral History
Video. The history of EBM.
The NNT
Quick summaries of Evidence-Based medicine. A framework and rating system, developed by physicians, to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms.
PubMed's 'Clinical Queries' Search Filter
A search filter/search interface in PubMed that will allows you to limit results to Systematic Reviews.

Form a focused clinical question
- Use a PICO or PICOT form
Efficiently find the available evidence (research studies)
- Take keywords from your PICO/PICOT form
- Search research article databases
Critically appraise the evidence for internal and external relevance
- Use article appraisal checklists
Make a decision / ethically apply the evidence
Reflect on the effect of the applied evidence / the overall process

When doing EBM, it is preferable to obtain evidence from as high up the 'hierarchy of evidence' as possible.

Search Credo Reference
- Online Encyclopedias, Medical Dictionaries, Handbooks and more
- Keyword search your topic, or browse books by topic or title
Search our (Minuteman) Book Catalog
- Limit by location to FSU for on-site Whittemore Library books
- Books may be physically in the Whittemore Library or available instantly online
Search RamSearch
- This searches the book catalog and many (but not all) databases
- Search, then limit your results to 'Books' or 'eBooks'

An evidence-based guide to planning care

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Provides full-text indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.
MEDLINE
Authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. (A subset of PubMed.)
Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus: Framingham State University Nursing Journal Collection
Access to more than 24,000 current nursing articles.
PubMed
Public access to citations from biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine.
ScienceDirect
More than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical, and technical information online.