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Clinical Effectiveness & Quality Improvement (Intranet Access Only)

Center for Evidence-based Practice
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Links to Evidence-based Practice Resources

• Local Websites
• National Websites
• Documents

Links Relevant to CEP Operations

Links to Evidence-based Resources

Local Websites

• Biomedical Library Systematic Review Guide
  http://guides.library.upenn.edu/SR

• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Biomedical Library
  http://www.library.upenn.edu/biomed/

• Department of Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement (CEQI)
  http://uphsxnet.uphs.upenn.edu/ceqi/

• Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB)
  http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/index.php

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National Websites

• AHRQ
  http://www.ahrq.gov/

• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
  http://www.guideline.gov/

• FDA
  http://www.fda.gov/

• Clinical Trials
  http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  http://www.nice.org.uk/

• Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
  http://www.cebm.net/

• University Health Network’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
  http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

• Centre for Health Evidence
  http://www.cche.net/

• BMJ’s Clinical Evidence
  http://www.clinicalevidence.org/ceweb/about/put_together.jsp

• The Cochrane Collaboration
  http://www.cochrane.org/

• Health Technology Assessment International
  http://www.htai.org

• The International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment
  http://www.inahta.org

• GRADE Working Group
  http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org

• NIH Consensus Development Program
  http://consensus.nih.gov/

• ECRI Health Technology Assessment Information Services
  http://www.ta.ecri.org/htais

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Documents

• Basic Pubmed Searching: Ebbert et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 2003; 78: 87-91.
• Advanced Pubmed Searching: Sood et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 2004; 79(10): 1295-1300.
• CONSORT (Reporting Guidelines for Randomized Controlled Trials): Moher et al. JAMA. 2001; 285: 1987-1991.
• STROBE (Reporting Guidelines for Observational Studies): von Elm et al. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 147: 573-577.
• QUOROM (Reporting Guidelines for Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials): Moher et al. Lancet. 1999; 354: 1896-1900.
• MOOSE (Reporting Guidelines for Meta-analyses of Observational Studies): Stroup et al. JAMA. 2000; 283: 2008-2012.
• AMSTAR (Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews): BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2007, 7:10.
• Jadad Score (Quality Scale for Randomized Controlled Trials): Jadad et al. Controlled Clinical Trials. 1996; 17: 1-12.
• GRADE System (Approach to Guideline Development): Grade Working Group. BMJ. Volume 328. June 10, 2004.

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Links Relevant to CEP Operations

• CPUP Policy 1-12-41 “Pharmaceutical Company Representative Activity”

• CPUP Policy 1-07-10 “Guidelines for Interactions between Healthcare Professionals and Industry”

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