Other resources for evidence-based geriatric medicine
Best Evidence
includes many abstracts and commentaries relevant to the care of geriatric patients
Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Group
(no longer online) (it also has links to other websites which people might find useful)
Straus SE, Sackett DL. Practising Evidence-based geriatric medicine. A 7-session course for clinicians. Radcliffe Medical Press:Oxford, 1999.
This manual provides a completely self-contained course for clinicians at all levels of training to learn how to practise evidence-based geriatric medicine. It contains clinical scenarios, searches, copies of the primary articles, completed worksheets, CATs, and skill-training sessions in searching for evidence in the Cochrane Libraray, on the Internet, and with MEDLINE, and in running the CATmaker. Tutor's and learners manuals are available through
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