Calculators & Worksheets

1. Calculators

• IcebergSim - a clinical trial simulator. Click here to see. 

• Epocrates Online: https://online.epocrates.com/public/portkey/

• Epocrates (pda) http://www.epocrates.com/products/rx/

• Stats calculator: http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/practise/ca/statscal/ (Note: needs Java installed on PC)

• Journal Club http://www.fppda.com/timjc.html

• Diagnostic Test calculator: http://araw.mede.uic.edu/cgi-bin/testcalc.pl

• Bayesian Analysis: http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc/bayes.html

• PICOMaker (for PDA) http://www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/pico/

• Clinical calculators: http://medinformatics.uthscsa.edu/calculator/calc.shtml

• Clinical Action Thresholds: http://personal.health.usf.edu/bdjulbeg/Programs/BR/br-java.htm

• NNT Tool (via JAMA Evidence):  http://www.jamaevidence.com/calculators/9000028

• Confidence Intervals in Research Evaluation: http://www.use.hcn.com.au/subject.`Confidence Intervals`/home.html

• Oxford CEBM page on NNTs:  http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=1044

2. Worksheets

a) Here are some ready-made worksheet:

• Therapy Worksheet

• Diagnosis Worksheet

• Prognosis Worksheet

• Arm/Aetiology Worksheet

b) Also, try these from the (Oxford) Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Overviews - to appraise systematic reviews and meta analysis download Treatment   - to appraise single randomised controlled trials download Diagnosis - to appraise studies of diagnosis download Prognosis - to appraise studies of prognosis download

And worksheets from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto): http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/teach/materials/caworksheets.htm

And NNTs from Bandolier: click here.

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