OOTA supports Evidence Based Practice.  Evidence based practice is familiarity with controlled research studies on the effectiveness of particular treatments.

The following resources are listed to help practitioners incorporate evidence into practice.

AOTA EBP Resource Directory.

The American Occupational Therapy Association's Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Resource Directory links users to Internet sites related to the evidence-based practice of occupational therapy (AOTA membership is required to access this resource)

AOTA's Evidence Briefs series. This series provides easy-to-read summaries of articles selected from scientific literature. (AOTA membership is required to access this resource).

Links to Databases that help gather references to EBP:

PubMed www.pubmed.com Provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.

Good handout on how to use PubMed http://nnlm.gov/healthinfoquest/help/pubmed.html

ERIC http://www.eric.ed.gov The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.

AARP Research Center http://research.aarp.org/ageline/home.html  Find research results and reference information to answer your questions about a variety of subjects related to aging.

OT Search http://www.aota.org/otsearch/index.asp OT Search is a subscription service to a bibliographic database covering the literature of occupational therapy and its related subject areas. You may subscribe to OT Search either as an individual or as an institution. For additional information about OT Search, click on one of the links to the right

q The Cochrane Library http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm An international not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. The Cochrane Library contains regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases