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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. Highly Reputable

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. Highly Reputable

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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 Expert

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. Highly Reputable

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. Highly Reputable

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. Expert

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. Highly Reputable

This link provides the documents and evidence used in the appraisal of health technologies used by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence for Hip prosthesis in the United Kingdom. Highly Reputable

NICE - The National Institute for Clinical Excellence - was set up as a Special Health Authority for England and Wales on 1 April 1999. It is part of the National Health Service (NHS), and its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current “best practice”. The guidance will cover both individual health technologies (including medicines, medical devices, diagnostic techniques, and procedures) and the clinical management of specific conditions. NICE offers the NHS and its patients a new service, which we intend shall earn, and retain, the confidence and respect of the community as a whole. Highly Reputable

The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Information is held on over 80,000 research projects and is expected to grow further, as well as entries from the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]). The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.