After thousands of deaths, it turns would that most likely only the December 2013 index case in the forests of Guinea was the only one that was associated with wild animals. The rest spread from human to human.
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PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating randomized trials, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions.
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Established in 2008, Meducation has become the leading educational platform for medics around the world. We organise the medical web - finding, categorising and organising thousands of resources from all over the internet. Over 150,000 medics use us to help them in their lifelong learning.
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CAPstone (Canadian Academic Publishers Ltd) is a not-for-profit company dedicated to the betterment of people globally through education. Download medical textbooks in a wide array of topics, including clinical and basic sciences, and exam reviews. All materials are online and free to download.
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Founded in 1991, Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) is a non-governmental agency consisting of faculty and health care educators dedicated to global education in health professions schools and residency programs. GHEC members are active in more than 70 health profession schools and training programs in the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean.
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Use this handy spreadsheet to calculate effect size and create Forest plots
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The American Recall Center provides drug and medical device recall information alongside practical healthcare information and support. We aim to build the most comprehensive resource on the Internet for timely and trusted material regarding healthcare topics that matter to the consumer. The team at ARC is dedicated to helping consumers find accurate information with ease. Notice: This website and its content are sponsored by WEITZ & LUXENBERG P.C., a law firm focusing on providing legal services to clients injured by negligent corporations and/or entities. Please read our disclaimer for more information. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not predict a similar outcome.
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Distinction between Episodic Mood Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity based on their Association with the Main Classes of International Classification of Disease in a Child and Adolescent Population.
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PDQ (“pretty darn quick”)-Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for decisions about health systems. It includes systematic reviews, broad syntheses of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.
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Open Textbook of Medicine by Wikipedia is a compilation of healthcare topics of global importance. They have been at least partly reviewed and improved as part of efforts to increase access to medical information in all languages. At least parts of all these articles are being translated into other languages by Translators Without Borders and placed into the appropriate Wikipedias in collaboration with local editors.
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The Information Assessment Method (IAM) "I think, therefore IAM" (Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637) The Information Assessment Method (IAM) systematically documents reflection on health information, delivered or retrieved from electronic knowledge resources. IAM enhances reflective learning, evaluation of knowledge resources, and two-way knowledge exchange between information users and information providers.
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Systematic reviews are gaining in popularity at medical research institutions across the US. Guidelines either state the need for or highly recommend the involvement of a librarian or information professional in systematic review research. Becker offers several resources and services to support systematic review research.
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Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence Based Practice (EBP) David Sackett writes that "the practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." Evidence Based Practice, also known as "empirically-supported treatment (EST), refers to preferential use of mental and behavioral health interventions for which systematic empirical research has provided evidence of statistically significant effectiveness as treatments for specific problems." developed by Archie Cochrane.
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UpToDate® is the premier evidence-based clinical decision support resource, trusted worldwide by healthcare practitioners to help them make the right decisions at the point of care. It is proven to change the way clinicians practice medicine, and is the only resource of its kind associated with improved outcomes.
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For a clinical reference to truly be called evidence-based, conclusions must be based on the best available evidence. Conclusions can be based on the best available evidence only if the evidence is consistently and systematically identified, consistently and systematically selected, consistently and systematically evaluated and summarized, consistently and systematically synthesized and interpreted, and continuously adjusted as new evidence becomes available.
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