Applied Medical Science 

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

American Medical Association

HealthGrades

When selecting Internet resources it is important to evaluate the quality of any websites that you use. Consult the USM Library’s Evaluating Web Resources guide, or Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkley) for evaluation criteria. The following is a selected list of websites that you may find useful. Consult your course guide on Blackboard for more sites.

Best Practice Guidelines
Developed by the Royal Nurses Association of Ontario. Designed to provide nurses with evidence-based recommendations regarding assessment and/or screening in a variety of practice settings. Includes 29 published guidelines as well as a Toolkit and Educator's Resource to support implementation.

BMJ Online
Online version of the British Medical Journal. Contains a series of articles on How to Read a Paper, including Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) and Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).

EBN Online
The electronic version of the journal Evidence-Based Nursing. Contains a link to evaluating systematic reviews of treatment/prevention.

Evidence-Based Nursing: Guides and Tools
An excellent site from McGill University with an extensive list of links to areas such as Question Formulation, Literature Searching, Critical Appraisal Tools and Examples.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. You can browse the guidelines by disease/condition, by treatment/intervention, or by the name of the submitting organization. Guidelines are abstracted into a standardized format and easy to compare.

NIH Podcasts