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Electronic Resources: Evidence-Based Resources

See also the A-Z list of all the Library's electronic resources.

• ACP Journal Club - summaries and commentaries by clinical experts on selected "articles that report original studies and systematic reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal medicine." Published bimonthly by American College of Physicians.
• Clinical Evidence - an "international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions." Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - provides "research-based information about the effects of interventions used in health and social care." From University of York, UK.
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects FREE
  • Health Technology Assessment Database FREE
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database FREE
• Cochrane Library
  • All segments of the Cochrane Library - search "a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making." From Wiley InterScience.
  • Central Register of Controlled Trials - search for bibliographic citations to clinical trials
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - browse abstracts of non-Cochrane, quality-assessed systematic reviews
  • Database of Systematic Reviews - browse more than 4,500 Cochrane Review Group summaries (includes Method Reviews)
  • Health Technology Assessment Database - browse references to "studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions"
  • Methodology Register - browse "bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials"
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database - browse "over 5000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations" about healthcare interventions
• Essential Evidence Plus - patient-oriented evidence that matters in a rapid and accessible form; also available for PDA; formerly InfoRetriever and InfoPOEMs
• JAMA Evidence - tools for practicing clinical medicine in an evidence based way
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) - "a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines." From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. FREE
• Natural Standard - "evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies."
• PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence DatabaseFREE
• Physician's Information and Education Resource (PIER) - evidence-based guidance tool to improve clinical care. From the American College of Physicians.
• PubMed Clinical Queries - filter searches in PubMed by specific study categories, systematic reviews or topics in medical geneticsFREE
• SUMSearch - a metasearch engine of evidence-based web resources FREE
• TRIP Database - search multiple quality and evidence-based resources FREE

Supplementary materials

• EBM Car slide tutorial FREE
• EBM "cheat sheet" FREE
• Worksheets - Diagnosis, Prognosis, Etiology, Therapy FREE