Physiotherapy

This site, developed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP), National Health Service, UK, offers simple and understandable tools for the evaluation of systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and many other types of studies.

Dr. Linda McLean is Full Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa.
This audience for this guide is pelvic rehabilitation practitioners and students.
All resources that appear in this guide are open access. If you are affiliated with a university or belong to a professional association, you may have access to additional subscription-based resources.

An agency which mission is "...To search, collect and disseminate available scientific evidence in the physiotherapy domain for physiotherapists, health care workers, patients and financiers of health care."

The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). We collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications and products of the research projects funded by NIDILRR.

This initiative is funded by the Centre for University Teaching of University of Ottawa and by le Centre national de formation en santé.

INESSS’s mission is to promote clinical excellence and the efficient use of resources in the health and social services sector. At the heart of the mission, INESSS assesses, in particular, the clinical advantages and the costs of the technologies, medications and interventions used in health care and personal social services. It issues recommendations concerning their adoption, use and coverage by the public plan, and develops guides to clinical practice in order to ensure their optimal use.

The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health is a national body that provides Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial health care decision makers with credible, impartial advice and evidence-based information about the effectiveness and efficiency of drugs and other health technologies.

The National Library of Guidelines is a collection of guidelines for the National Health Service. It is based on the guidelines produced by NICE-National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence -and other national agencies. The main focus of the Library is on guidelines produced in the UK, but where no UK guideline is available, guidelines from other countries are included in the collection.

Systematically developed statements produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances

(compiled by Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, U of Toronto)
Gives a quick introduction to Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy and a bibliography of core references on this topic.

Tutorial and exercises on Web page evaluation. Produced by Widener University, Wolfram Memorial Library (Chester, PA).

Explore this site and their resources.

Put out by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools.

Other site and resources to explore.

The purpose of this series is to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to implement EBP consistently, one step at a time.