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The Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature Interactive website (www.usersguides.org) is an online resource with the stated goal of putting the “clinician in charge of the single most powerful resource in medicine,” the medical literature. To achieve this goal, the resource has used the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature textbook (previously reviewed in ACP Journal Club1 and also available at www.acpjc.org/Content/136/2/Issue/ACPJC-2002-136-2-A14.htm) to develop interactive online materials designed to aid in understanding and teaching evidence-based medicine. Its target audience is “any clinician who wishes to understand the medical literature.”
Designed and edited by Robert Hayward, the website is managed by the Centre for Health Evidence (www.cche.net) in collaboration with the Evidence-based Medicine Working Group and the editors and publishers of JAMA and the Archives journals. Anyone who purchases a copy of the Users’ Guide to the Medical Literature textbook receives a free 60 day trial of the …