Evidence-Based Medicine

An Introduction to EBM

Practice Guidelines

AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Provides access to evidence reports, quality & disparity reports, technology assessments, and other research studies.
The Community Preventive Services Guide:
Provides reviews of interventions for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness for a community health topics.
EPC Evidence-Based Reports (AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Evidence Report Topics, which are mainly disease-related, are organized into a browseable list.
ERCI Guidelines Trust
Create a free account to access library of evidence-based guidelines organized by topic, care setting, and resource types.
Evidence-Based Care Recommendations (Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center)
Pediatric evidence-based practice guidelines, with both medical and surgical topics.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Review expert recommendations by topic on disease prevention and evidence-based medicine.

Many Rutgers Libraries databases provide access to guidelines, search for the specific condition or topic and then limit your results:

CINAHL - select Practice Guideline in Publication Type box and then click Search.
ClinicalKey - select the Guidelines limiter to left of results.
DynaMed - scroll down in the Topic outline on the left, and click on the Guidelines and Resources section.
PubMed - look under the Article Types section to the left of the results, select Practice Guideline, click Show, and then click on the Practice Guideline option that is now displaying under Article Types and search.
Trip - select Guidelines limiter on left of results.
UpToDate - scroll down in the Topic outline on the left, and click on the Society Guideline Links section.