Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Resources

A collection of the various EBM resources that I find helpful on a day to day basis. If there are other helpful resources that you use, please share them in the comments below.

General EBM Resources

• Sources I use to keep up to date
• Evidence based medicine is still the best kind of medicine (the philosophy and shortcomings of EBM)
• EBM videos
• Good EBM lectures

Books I recommend

• The Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature
  
• Studying a Study and Testing a Test: Reading Evidence-based Health Research
  How to Lie With Statistics
  
• The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

Critical Appraisal Checklists

Calculators

• Confidence interval proportion
• Odds Ratio to NTT
• Likelihood ratios and Fagan nomogram
• Post-test probability
• Kappa value
• Fragility index calculator
• Fragility index calculator 2
• Diagnostic tests (Sensitivity/Specificity/LRs)
• Leaf plot app for visualizing sensitivity, specificity, and post test probability

Searchable Databases

• Pubmed.gov
• Embase
• Trip database
• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• DARE – Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
• Clinicaltrials.gov
• PROSPERO
• BestBETs

Websites

• The James Lind Library
• CEBM – The Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (Oxford)
• Knowledge Translation Program (University of Toronto)

Conferences

• BEEM: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine