LibGuides: Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): Organizations & Agencies

Organizations and Associations

American Medical Association
Information included about the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
CEBM is a University of Oxford based center that aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care through conferences, workshops and EBM tools.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PCORI helps people make informed healthcare decisions, and improves healthcare delivery and outcomes, by producing and promoting high-integrity, evidence-based information that comes from research guided by patients, caregivers, and the broader healthcare community.

Canadian Task Froce on Preventive Health Care
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) has been established by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to develop clinical practice guidelines that support primary care providers in delivering preventive health care.
AGREE
he Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument evaluates the process of practice guideline development and the quality of reporting.
Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center
The Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC), located at RAND, was established in 1997. The EPC is designated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as one of 12 centers in North America to produce evidence reports.
ECRI Instititue
Since 1968, the people of ECRI Institute have made it our mission to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. More than 5,000 healthcare institutions and systems worldwide—including four out of every five U.S. hospitals—rely on ECRI Institute to guide their operational and strategic decisions. In addition, we serve public and private payers, federal and state agencies, policymakers, ministries of health, associations, and accrediting agencies.

Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs)

There are 12 Evidence-based Practice Centers currently funded by the AHRQ.

Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane
Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a doctor or nurse, patient or carer, researcher or funder, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision making.

Cochrane exists so that healthcare decisions get better; and our Strategy to 2020 aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision-making all over the world. It organizes our work around four goals:

Goal 1: Producing evidence

To produce high-quality, relevant, up-to-date systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence to inform health decision making. There are now over 7,500 Cochrane Systematic Reviews which we publish in the Cochrane Library. We also play a key role in developing new methods in evidence synthesis.

Goal 2: Making our evidence accessible

We want to make Cochrane evidence accessible and useful to everybody, everywhere in the world. We translate the Plain Language Summaries of Cochrane Reviews into 14 languages, work closely with consumers and patients to ensure our content is easily understandable, and make the Cochrane Library freely available to 3.66 billion people around the world.

Goal 3: Advocating for evidence:

We aim to make Cochrane the ‘home of evidence’ to inform health decision making, build greater recognition of our work, and become the leading advocate for evidence-informed health care.

Goal 4: Building an effective and sustainable organization:

We aspire to be a diverse, inclusive, and transparent international organization that effectively harnesses the enthusiasm and skills of our contributors, is guided by our principles, governed accountably, managed efficiently, and makes optimal use of our resources.

Cochrane Evidence Essentials

Cochrane Evidence Essentials
Cochrane Evidence Essentials is a free online resource offering an introduction to health evidence, and how to use it to make informed health choices. First time users will need to create a Cochrane account for access (free).
Module 1: Evidence-based Medicine
30 minutes. First time users will need to create a Cochrane account for access (free).
Module 2: Randomized Controlled Trials
45 min. First time users will need to create a Cochrane account for access (free).
Module 3: INtroduction to Systematic Reviews
45 min. First time users will need to create a Cochrane account for access (free).
Module 4: Understanding and Using Systematic Reviews
45 min. First time users will need to create a Cochrane account for access (free).