Subject Guides: Public health & community medicine: Medical research & evidence based medicine

Getting started with medical research

Designing clinical research
Qualitative research from start to finish
How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine
This eBook demystifies evidence-based medicine and explains how to critically appraise published research and also put the findings into practice.

How to read a paper
Links to articles in the BMJ that explain how to read and interpret different kinds of research papers.

SAGE research methods online
A searching tool that links together research methods content from SAGE’s dictionaries, encyclopaedias, books, journals and videos.

Cochrane Library
A regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration.
Key areas: allied health; biology; biomedical engineering; clinical medicine; clinicians; drugs; evidence based medicine; healthcare; medicine; pharmacology; psychiatry; reviews
EBM reviews
This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the seven Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases (via OVID)

ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)
The Centre's aim is to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and to also provide support and resources.