Recommended Evidence-Based Medicine Books
Evidence-Based Medicine Calculators
Therapy
- P-value for the difference between two independent proportions
- 95% Confidence Interval for a proportion
- 95% Confidence Interval for a mean
- Comparison of two proportions (RR, RRR, ARR, NNT, OR, 95% CI)
- Sample size/power for two independent proportions
- Sample size/power for two independent means
- Odds ratio to NNT calculator
Diagnosis
Miscellaneous
Finding the Evidence: Searchable Databases
- Pubmed.gov (primary literature, systematic reviews)
- Embase (international biomedical database)
- Trip database (systematic reviews, synopses)
- The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
- DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (abstracts of systematic reviews)
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- Clinicaltrials.gov (studies still in process)
- PROSPERO (international prospective register of systematic reviews)
Checklists and Guidelines
- CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials)
- STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservation studies in Epidemiology)
- MOOSE (Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology)
- PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
- QUADAS (QUality Assesment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies)
- STARD (STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies)
EM Residency Journal Club Websites
Midwest
- Indiana University
- Ohio State University
- Southern Illinois University
- University of Michigan
- University of Nebraska
- University of Toledo
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wright State University