Research Resources and Links

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)

• APTA Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Resources
• Finding Physical Therapy Literature 

Citation Manager Software

• EndNote

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
  • Institute for Knowledge Translation
  • Academy of Neurologic PT Knowledge Translation
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)
  • Why we need better evidence.
  • Levels of Evidence: An Introduction
  • Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Levels of Evidence (pdf)
  • Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Levels of Evidence (website)

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)