Guidelines and EBM | Library | St. Luke's International University

Researchers from Europe, North America, and New Zealand have led the way in providing a framework for the development of clinical practice guidelines.

AGREE II is a guideline evaluation tool developed by The AGREE Next Steps Consortium that consists of 23 items across six domains plus two general items (25 in total).

Cochrane, previously known as the Cochrane Collaboration, is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization consisting of a group of more than 37,000 volunteers in more than 130 countries. The Consortium is also responsible for The Cochrane Library.

The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official guide that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions. This is a handbook for preparing systematic reviews of Cochrane.

CASP offers critical appraisal skills training, workshops and tools. These help you read and check health research for trustworthiness, results & relevance. This website teaches critical evaluation of information. Information is evaluated in three steps. 1.Is the study valid?　2.What are the results?　3.Are the results useful?

The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) seeks to improve the quality of health care by promoting systematic development of clinical practice guidelines and their application into practice, through supporting international collaboration. Under Library & Resources, there is an International Guideline Library where you can search for guidelines since 1990. You can also refine your search by criteria such as country or language. You need to be a member to see the detailed guidelines.

GRADE

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (short GRADE) working group began in the year 2000 as an informal collaboration of people with an interest in addressing the shortcomings of grading systems in health care. The working group has developed a common, sensible and transparent approach to grading quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations. This is the website of GRADE, the global standard for clinical practice guideline development methods.

These online learning modules are designed to help guideline developers and authors of systematic reviews learn how to use the GRADE approach to grade the evidence in systematic reviews, to create Summary of Findings Tables and GRADE Evidence Profiles, and move from evidence to making recommendations. This is a McMaster University website that shows how to compile clinical practice guidelines using the GRADE system. There are two modules; one for Cochrane Review and the other for WHO guideline development.

Joanna Brings Institute The Institute collaborates internationally with over 70 entities across the world. The Institute and its Collaborating Entities promote and support the synthesis, transfer and utilization of evidence through identifying feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective healthcare practices to assist in the improvement of healthcare outcomes globally. It is a global organization that supports evidence-based healthcare practice. This is a critical appraisal tool created by JBI.

You can search for Japanese clinical practice guidelines selected by Minds. It also contains sources of information on how to create these guidelines, including a guideline development manual.

NICE provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care. This website contains guidelines drawn up by the U.K. National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. This website can be used for the creation and evaluation of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Checklists and flowcharts are often used.

PROSPERO is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome. This is a database that you may register for when you plan a systematic review. You can also check to see if there are any competing studies.

The SPELL

The Square of Practicing EBM and Lifelong Learning. It describes EBM, provides learning methods for lifelong learning, and lists EBM study groups for students as well as EBM teaching materials and resources, EBM workshops and other EBM events (taken from The Spell website).

Trip Database

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. The screen is also compatible with smartphones and other mobile devices.

This is a website where you can search for clinical practice guidelines created or translated by Japanese academic societies and other organizations. It is administered by the Japan Medical Abstracts Society in conjunction with Toho University. Updated on the 1st of every month.

"Published quarterly, Evidence-Based Nursing is designed to alert practicing nurses to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group and the Royal College of Nursing Publishing Company, Evidence-Based Nursing selects and examines every aspect of the very best international nursing research for your practice." (taken from EBN website)