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Early Management of Patients with a Head Injury. SIGN Guideline

The authors evaluated two hypothetical interventions to prevent hip fracture in the overall female population and in a high-risk female population. For one intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating treatment with bisphosphonates, and for the other intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating those of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Highly Reputable

Stretching before or after exercising does not confer protection from muscle soreness Highly Reputable

Update in eMJA of 1996 study "How best to fix broken hips" (qv)

Archive Copy 2003: Overview of the subject

Need Athens Password. Evidence-Based On-Call is a database developed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of Oxford. In the early days of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, it became clear that young doctors, although very keen to practise evidence-based decision-making, were unable to find the evidence they... Highly Reputable

Archive Copy: 2004 Hi Quality website, launched in March 2002 and designed to raise standards in health information. Hi Quality should be used if you are: looking for health information and require guidance on how to check its quality; producing health information and require guidance on how to assure quality standards. Highly Reputable

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Archive Site: i-medicine. This site is a portal, providing links to high quality sites related to evidence based medicine, medical informatics and audit. New version promised in Sept 2005 Expert

The Clinical Trials section of this site is divided into lists of ongoing clinical trials in active recruitment at Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Bayview Center.

Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis. SIGN Guideline Highly Reputable

Fantastic set of over 3500 algorithms for medicine. Includes sections on musculoskeletal and trauma. Contains downloadable documents pertaining to many outcome scoring systems. Highly Reputable

MDA is the world's largest non-governmental sponsor of research seeking the causes of and effective treatments for neuromuscular diseases, sponsoring some 400 research projects annually.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) is a registered charity whose aim is to review clinical practice and identify potentially remediable factors in the practice of anaesthesia, surgery and other invasive medical procedures. The aim is to look at the quality of the delivery of care and not... Highly Reputable

National Electronic Library for Health Physiotherpy Portal. The National electronic Library for Health Programme is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public. Expert