Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is increasingly being used by health care professionals, health plans, and accrediting organizations, among others, to make patient care decisions. AACC's EBM Committee has identified the internet links and materials listed below as useful resources for learning about EBM-including basic information about what it is and how it is used, as well as detailed, up-to-date information on recent developments important to laboratorians, clinicians, manufacturers, and other health-related professions and entities. Please check them out and let us know if you have suggestions on search engines and websites to add to this list. We welcome your suggestions!! Use the "Add/Change A URL" link located on the navigation menu.

AACC's EBLM Committee

• Stephen Kahn, PhD, Chair
• Robert Christenson, PhD, Vice-Chair
• J. Rex Astles, PhD
• James Boyd, MD
• William Clark, PhD
• Christopher Price, PhD
• Susan Maynard, PhD
• Shirley Welch, PhD

EBLM and The Clinical Laboratory

• Overview of Evidence-based Medicine: Challenges for Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine; Matthew J. McQueen
• Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine: Supporting Decision-Making; Christopher P. Price.
• Laboratory-related Outcomes in Healthcare; David E. Bruns.
• Evidence-Based Guidelines in Laboratory Medicine: Principles and Methods; Wytze P. Oosterhuis et. al
• Other CCJ articles on EBM

Comparative Effectiveness and The Future of Healthcare

• MedPAC Report (June 2008)
• Institute of Medicine Report (January 2008)
• Congressional Budget Office Report (December 2007)
• Congressional Research Service Report (October 2007)
• IOM EBM Roundtable Executive Summary Report (September 2007)
• MedPAC Report (June 2007)
• Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health hearing (June 2007)

Leading EBLM Publications

• ACP Journal Club
• Bandolier
• British Medical Journal
• Clinical Chemistry Journal
• JAMA
• Journal of Internal Medicine
• Lancet

Government EBLM Sites

Private Sector EBLM Sites

• Centres for Health Evidence
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Evidence Based Medicine: The University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Health Information Research Unit – McMaster University
• Health Web: Evidence Based Health Care
• Scharr: Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
• OMNI

EBM Conferences: Past AHRQ Conferences

• Translating Evidence into Practice 1997
• Translating Evidence into Practice 1998
• Evidence: Its Meaning in Health Care and in Law 2000

AACC Conferences: Past AACC Programs

• EBM 2000 monograph (PDF)
• EBM Expert Access 2001 - Decision Making: The Heart Of Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine
• EBM 2001 proceedings (PDF)

Study Suggestions:
AACC regularly submits suggestions to AHRQ for future EBlM studies. If you have an idea you would like the Association to endorse and submit, please send us an email with the following information for the EBM Group to review: Name, Contact Information, Topic suggestion, Description.

AACC EBLM Products

• Evidence-Based Practice for Point-of-Care Testing
• Applying Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine: A Step-by-Step Guide

EBLM Funding Sources / Search Engines  

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• AHRQ Grants OnLine Database
• National Institutes of Health