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Effectiveness Matters - A bulletin providing updates on the effectiveness of health interventions. Subscribe to the paper version(free) or view the full text published articles online.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Official centre for EBM. Based at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford. Information, statistics, teaching materials and discussion.
Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales - Collection of evidence based information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a number of common serious health problems.
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - Established to provide the NHS with information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of health care. Provides systematic reviews on selected topics and a dissemination service.
Oxford Pain Internet Site - Systematic reviews of pain management. Excellent knowledge base and examples of evidence based medicine.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence - Special Health Authority with the task of systematically appraising health interventions and producing national guidance on effectiveness. Full details of evidence and appraisal process are supplied.
Effective Health Care bulletins - A bi-monthly bulletin which examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions. Based on systematic review. Full text available online.
Development and Evaluation Committee - The DEC provided information about the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies to commissioners of health care in the South West and South East NHS Regions. Over 100 reports available on the site.
Trent Working Group on Acute Purchasing - Reviews the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions. Guidance notes for purchasers are available. Summaries of 26 reports available online.
Lothian Evidence-based Mental Health - Part of the University of Edinburgh and Lothian Primary Healthcare Trust. Provides tools for assessing evidence and some critical appraisal topics.
Bandolier Home Page - Newsletter of evidence-based health care.
Netting the Evidence - Guide to resources for evidence based medicine on the Internet. Assembled by Andrew Booth of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Evidence Based Medicine "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Evidence Based Medicine Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Evidence Based Medicine "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Evidence Based Medicine Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Evidence Based Medicine "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Evidence Based Medicine For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Evidence Based Medicine blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Evidence Based Medicine You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Evidence Based Medicine Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Evidence Based Medicine It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Evidence Based Medicine LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Evidence Based Medicine The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Evidence Based Medicine "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Evidence Based Medicine "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Evidence Based Medicine He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Evidence Based Medicine I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Evidence Based Medicine "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Evidence Based Medicine The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Evidence Based Medicine "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Evidence Based Medicine Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Evidence Based Medicine Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Evidence Based Medicine
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