Research Resources and Links
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UTC Resources
- UTC Library's Home Page (UTC ID required)
- UTC Physical Therapy Databases and Search Engines
- UTC Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- UTC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
- UTC AMA Style Guide (Reference Guide)
- AMA Citation Generator
American Physical Therapy Association (membership required)
Citation Manager Software
Evidence-Based Medicine Calculators
- Statistics Calculators
- Diagnostic Test Calculator
- Determines diagnostic test characteristics: Prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, etc.
- Determines post-test probabilities given pre-test probabilities & test characteristics.
- Flesch Kincaid Calculator
- Evidence-Based Medicine: EBM Calculators
- Randomization Tables
Sources for Literature
- Health Evidence
- Cochrane Library (log in through UTC for full access)
- PEDro - (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- PEDro Scale
- PubMed tutorial
- PubMed (log in through UTC for full access)
- CINAHL Complete (log in through UTC for full access)
- National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
- MedlinePlus (Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine)
- Free Medical Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Resources
- Rehabilitation Measures Database (Shirley Ryan Ability Lab)
- Clinical Trials Database (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day (Every year on October 20th)
- Knowledge Translation
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)
Appraisal Tools
- Critical Appraisal Toolkit
- EBM Toolkit Practice Guidelines
- Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Consort Checklist
- PEDro Tutorial
- PEDro - (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Systematic Review
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Case Control Study
- QUADAS (Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies)
- CASP Appraisal Tools
- APTA Critical Appraisal Tool for Experimental Intervention Studies (CAT-EI)
- JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute)