American College of Physicians, including ACP Journal Club.
ARIF - Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility, a specialist unit based at the University of Birmingham, set up to help health workers in the West Midlands access and interpret research evidence in response to specific problems. Funded by NHS Executive West Midlands, R&D Directorate.
The AuRACLE Project, supporting evidence-based information seeking - based at the Department. of Information Studies (University of Sheffield), AuRACLE aims to develop a computer-based reference service capable of increasing the range of (evidence-based) information queries that can be handled by machine.
Bandolier Online, a journal produced monthly by the NHSE Oxford and Anglia Regional Office in the UK. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine, hence its title. Access to Bandolier on the Internet is free of charge, but it may run several months behind the printed version. Subscription to the printed version of Bandolier costs £30 per year (UK) and £60 overseas.
Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health, in London.
Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry, in Oxford.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, the WWW page of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.

Cochrane Collaboration, is developing systematic reviews of important medical topics. A complete list of the reviews with abstracts has been compiled by the Australasian Cochrane Center.
The Cochrane Library, provides rapid access to regularly-updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care, structured abstracts of quality assessed, previously published reviews, references to controlled trials, references to articles on the science of reviewing research and sources of further information.
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP), aim is to help health service decision makers and those who seek to influence decision makers develop skills in the critical appraisal of evidence about effectiveness, in order to promote the delivery of evidence-based health care.
Database of Evidence-Based Abstracts and Articles, site provided by Dr Michael Zack MD, Oregon Health Sciences University. All documents on this list show evidence of a literature search to identify high quality evidence on the topic or include a critical appraisal of a single article. The list is divided into several sub-lists to facilitate downloading.
Development and Evaluation Committee Reports (DEC), these reports have been prepared as part of the Development and Evaluation Service funded by the R&Development Directorate South and West. They are intended to provide rapid, accurate and usable information on health technology effectiveness to purchasers, clinicians, managers and researchers in the South and West.
Evidence Based Care, McMaster Health Information Research Unit, at McMaster University in Canada, featuring a large inventory of evidence based resources, an on-line database, interactive users guides, bibliographies and such tools as NNT and LR calculators.
Evidence-Based Medicine, the journal published jointly by BMJ Publishing Group and the ACP.
Evidence-Based Medicine Tool Kit, A collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making based on the work of the Evidence-based Medicine Working Group.
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, research organisation based in Ontario, Canada, evaluating effectiveness, quality and efficiency of health care.
Mailbase, provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.
Evidence Based Health discussion list is for teachers and practitioners in health related fields; to announce meetings and courses; stimulate discussion; air controversies and aid the implementation of EBH.
Public Health discussion list provides a forum and information resource for those working in epidemiology and public health. It aims to facilitate information sharing, (eg workshops, seminars, conferences and new research) and promote links, collaborative working, joint problem-solving and mutual support.
Medical Research Council, aims to improve health by promoting research into all areas of medical and related science. It supports medical research in three main ways: through its research establishments; grants to individual scientists; and support for post graduate students.
MRC Applied Psychology Unit studies human psychological processes such as memory, language, attention, reading, motor and cognitive skills, hearing and vision.
BBSRC and MRC Neuropathogenisis Unit studies diseases of the nervous system caused by unconventional agents.
MRC Child Psychiatry Unit studies the interconnections between developmental processes, normal and abnormal, and psychopathology as manifest in childhood but including its persistence into adult life.
MRC Cognitive Development Unit investigates cognitive development through formulation of theories of developmental change, especially in the areas of social understanding, literacy and language acquisition.
MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit a facility for the study of human movement, balance and spatial orientation, with emphasis on their derangement in diseases of the eyes, ears and nervous system.
MRC Institute for Environment and Health the primary role of the Institute is to assess and evaluate links between environmental quality and human health and well being.
MRC Institute of Hearing Research is completing a major epidemiological study of hearing and its disorders (including tinnitus). Projects are in progress on the genetics and molecular biology of hereditary hearing disorders, the neural representation of complex sounds, and the separation of speech and other auditory patterns from interfering stimuli.
MRC Medical Sociology Unit studies the social causes and consequences of health and illness. Its work focuses on the ways in which social class, gender, age, ethnicity, area of residence and marital status are related to health and illness.
SCHARR (Netting the Evidence), developed and maintained at the School of Health and Related Research at Sheffield University. Useful for finding evidence-based information on the internet.
UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes, database of outcome measures and measurement of outcomes on topics including asthma and cancer.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Guides to Clinical Preventive Services


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