Prodigy replaces CKS

Prodigy(formerly the Clinical Knowledge Service) is now being provided by Clarity Informatics.    Prodigy can be found at http://prodigy.clarity.co.uk/home

Number Needed to Treat http://www.thennt.com

There is a way of understanding how much modern medicine has to offer individual patients. It is a simple statistical concept called the “Number-Needed-to-Treat”, or for short the ‘NNT’. The NNT offers a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact on one person. The concept is statistical, but intuitive, for we know that not everyone is helped by a medicine or intervention — some benefit, some are harmed, and some are unaffected. The NNT tells us how many of each. Visit The NNT.

Read David Rothman’s review here.

News from BMJ’s Best Practice

The Clinical Evidence systematic reviews are now available for you to access within Best Practice.

NLM’s Nuclear Emergency website

From the Radiation Emergency Medical Management website:

• Provide guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies
• Provide just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise
• Provide web-based information that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an emergency if the internet is not accessible

Read laika’s medliblog for a medical librarian’s comments about this site

Resources for Disaster Preparedness

Two resources for clinicians and people working/living in areas affected by natural disasters

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Earthquake Information for Clinicians

The Cochrane Library Evidence Aid 

Centre for Evidence Based Practice Australasia

Launch of CEBPA, by A/Prof. Sharon Straus (RMH International Visitor 2009).  The virtual Centre for Evidence Based Practice can be found at www.cebpa.info  (IMPORTANT: to see the full range of resources on CEBPA you will need to Logon/register on the site.)

Grey matters: a practical search tool for evidence-based medicine

Go beyond the “grey zone”: Take advantage of some of the best IS expertise among HTA agencies worldwide with CADTH’s new online resource for grey literature searching, Grey matters: a practical search tool for evidence-based medicine.

Revamped CEBM Oxford website

The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford has revamped its website. It looks fantastic! To see, go to http://www.cebm.net

Wiley-Blackwell Relaunches InfoPOEMs with InfoRetriever as Essential Evidence Plus – press release

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), relaunched an enhanced version of its evidence-based medicine (EBM) content resource InfoPOEMs with InfoRetriever under the new name Essential Evidence Plus in January 2008.

Essential Evidence Plus will continue to feature InfoPOEMs, the highly-regarded daily EBM content alerting service, and the robust EBM search application formerly known as InfoRetriever. The incorporation of two new content resources-EBM Guidelines and e-Essential Evidence-will greatly augment the existing product features and content and position the re-branded resource Essential Evidence Plus as a state-of-the-art content system facilitating EBM practice, increasing clinical efficiency at the point of care, and improving patient outcomes.

EBM Guidelines is produced by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim and includes a concise, easy-to-use collection of more than 950 Practice Guidelines, more than 3,000 Evidence Summaries, and more than 1,000 images. “The Finnish Medical Society has long led advances in the implementation of EBM,” said Shawn Morton, Wiley-Blackwell’s Publishing Director for Medicine in the Americas. “EBM Guidelines is a key source of information for practitioners at the point of care and a powerful tool reflecting much clinical experience. This well-respected and high-grade source of EBM content fits perfectly with the scope and focus of Essential Evidence Plus.”

Wiley-Blackwell will add e-Essential Evidence to the Essential Evidence Plus suite during the first quarter of 2008. This resource is an innovative general medical reference providing highly relevant medical content in a highly structured, evidence-based format for general practitioners nurses and physician assistants providing first contact care. “e-Essential Evidence is a truly evidence-based reference, with content tightly integrated and hyperlinked to all of the resources in Essential Evidence Plus, including InfoPOEMs summaries and The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Abstracts. Additionally we’ve also included in Essential Evidence Plus algorithms for common problems, thousands of interactive calculators and decision support tools, a visual expert system for diagnosing skin conditions, coding tools, and an extensive library of images,” said Dr. Mark Ebell, Editor-in-Chief of Essential Evidence Plus. “e-Essential Evidence is a groundbreaking new medical reference and will serve as the cornerstone for Essential Evidence Plus. I am pleased to participate in this exciting and cutting-edge project.”

“The relaunch of InfoPOEMs as Essential Evidence Plus signifies the continuing evolution of a great product. Evidence-based medicine has progressed to the point where it is a central support of modern medical practice,” said Michael Wilkes, Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean of Education at the University of California, Davis. “It is critical for healthcare professionals to quickly retrieve the most accurate, the most current, and the most relevant medical research. Essential-Evidence Plus is an important tool that will provide primary-care clinicians with access to the most extensive source of evidence-based medical information currently available for use at the point-of-care.”

Wiley acquired InfoPOEM, Inc., a provider of evidence-based medical content and web-based search tools, in October 2005.

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EBM Librarian

EBM Librarian is a blog for EBM Librarians (obvious). Check it out. It’s got a really cool Navigation window on the left with links to EBM resources, CATS, blogs and a whole lot more.

Find it at: http://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com/page/What’s+New-+What’s+Kool?t=anon Particularly useful is their EBM Page Generator, which creates a web page customised to your EBM searching needs – to see, go to: http://www.ebmpyramid.org/home.php