Start from here to search databases or find other sites of help to researchers. These sites are not cardiac rehabilitation specific but cover the whole of health care.
Note: each of these links will open in a new page, closing that page will not close this page. If the page takes time to open you can come back here and open another while you are waiting.
Evidence
based practice and systematic review |
The Centre
for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy was established by a small group of clinical and academic
physiotherapists. It is based at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney.
The Centre's mission is to maximise the effectiveness of physiotherapy services by facilitating the clinical application
of the best available evidence. |
English National Board
(ENB) for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research and Development home page |
The
Cochrane Collaboration (Canada) Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of
systematic reviews of the effects of health care. |
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The Cochrane Library
(Oxford) The Cochrane Library is the best single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care
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Centre
for Evidence-Based Medicine.
The Centre has been established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone
who wants to make use of them. Have
a look at their teaching materials
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Netting the Evidence
A ScHARR (Sheffield. UK) Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the
Internet huge number of links sorted
alphabetically. |
DARE
(University of York. UK) Systematic reviews are identified from a variety of sources and assessed according
to a set of quality criteria. For good quality reviews, detailed structured abstracts
describing the methodology, results and conclusions are produced. Comments on the overall quality of reviews and their implications for health care are also
included. |
Health Technology Assessment
(HTA) Database Health care technology is defined as prevention and rehabilitation, vaccines,
pharmaceuticals, and devices, medical and surgical procedures, and the systems within which health is protected and maintained. Technology assessment studies
the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of development, its diffusion,
and the use of health technology. It informs policy decisions with the aim of improving the quality and
cost-effectiveness of healthcare. |
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People
doing research in the UK |
The National Research Register
(NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the
United Kingdom's National Health Service. The current release contains information on over 42,000 research projects, as well as entries from
the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS Centre for Reviews and
Dissemination. |
Trying
to find someone in a UK college or University this amazing clickable map can
take you to the home pages and do a number of other amazing things. |
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Search
engines |
Bandolier
Evidence-based health care. 1999 winner "best NHS web site" (NHS Magazine / Microsoft)
Search the site for what you are looking for Bandolier's Boolean Search Page
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CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the
Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education
resources. |
