Nursing & Health Innovations

"The Effective Health Care Program creates free research summaries about the benefits and risks of different treatments for different health conditions. The summaries are based on comparative effectiveness reviews that cover health topics suggested by the public. These research summaries are not clinical recommendations or guidelines and should not be interpreted as such."

50 published guidelines on best practices for client care, as well as a toolkit and educator's resource to support implementation. Many of these publications are available in French, among other languages and the organization says it continues to translate materials on an ongoing basis.

Guidance: Formal guidelines
Advice: Critical assessment of evidence
Local Practice: "Case studies of how NICE guidance and standards have been used to improve the quality of health and care."

EthnoMed is Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas.

"The tools available here can help a variety of audiences better understand what clinical preventive services are and how they can be implemented in the real world."

"The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. Systematic reviews are used to answer these questions:
* Which program and policy interventions have been proven effective?
* Are there effective interventions that are right for my community?
* What might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return on investment?"

* Emerging Evidence ("...results on a single subject...does not represent formal or recommended VA policy")
* Evidence-Based Synthesis ("provide[s] timely and accurate syntheses of targeted health care topics of particular importance to VA managers and policy makers and [disseminates] these reports broadly throughout VA.")

View a few pages to get a sense of this book, which seeks "to make the clinician fluent in the language of the medical literature in all its forms."
Clark Library has a print copy: see below for details.

Tools to help you locate evidence and appraise it, provided by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.