This database of summaries of articles from the major medical journals, together with expert commentaries, is the CD-ROM equivalent of the combined ACP Journal Club and Evidence Based Medicine output. Details of subscriptions are found at the BMJ site.
Clinical Evidence is a database of clinical questions designed to help clinicians make evidence-based medicine part of their everyday practice. Hundreds of clinical questions cover the effects of treatments and interventions based on the best available research. Topics are selected to cover common or important clinical conditions seen in primary care or ambulatory settings. Questions are selected for their relevance to clinical practice by leading physicians in conjunction with other practicing physicians and patient groups. Answers are the result of thorough research commissioned by the prestigious BMJ Publishing Group (British Medical Journal), employing premier medical resources including the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, ACP Journal Club. Rigorous peer-review of all material by independent experts, an advisory board, and an international advisory committee aims to ensure that the information is of the highest quality.
The U.S. , through its , has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.
A rapidly growing collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of the effects of health care, maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. New reviews are added with each issue of . Cochrane reviews are reviews mainly of randomised controlled trials. Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria to minimise bias. Data are often combined statistically, with meta-analysis, to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies each too small to produce reliable results individually. The Cochrane Library is to NHS staff, patients and the public in England through the NeLH. The Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews can be or .
The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. It is published quarterly on CD-ROM and the Internet. The Cochrane Library is to NHS staff, patients and the public in England through the NeLH.
Cochrane Library [Abstracts]
This facility from Update Software allows you to search the abstracts of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The full-text of the reviews is only available through the Cochrane Library above.
DARE is a database of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York.
A list of the latest articles on Evidence Based Health Care provided by the Evidence Based resource Centre in New York.
Reports and issue briefs from the HTAC in Minnesota.
The HTA Database, mounted by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, contains abstracts produced by INAHTA (International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment) and other healthcare technology agencies.
Searchable database of POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) from the Journal of Family Practice. POEMS are summaries similar to ACP Journal Club articles in methodology and format, targeted at family practitioners.
This WWW resource contains the following collections: AHCPR Supported Guidelines, AHCPR Technology Assessments and Reviews, ATIS (HIV/AIDS Technical Information), NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Research Studies, NIH Consensus Development Program, PHS Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (1989) and SAMHSA/CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP).
The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom"s National Health Service. The current release contains information on over 57,000 research projects, as well as entries from the Medical Research Council"s Clinical Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database is a database of structured abstracts of economic evaluations of health care interventions produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York.
PEDro, an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP). PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give physiotherapists and others rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help to quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.
This site will include all guidelines, evidence-based, consensus, practice parameters, protocols, as well as other resources such as primary articles, integrative studies, meta-analysis, critically appraised topics, and review articles. Compiled by Peter Sam at the UCSF School of Medicine.
RehabTrials.org is a new web site created by the non-profit Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC) to promote, encourage, and support clinical trials in medical rehabilitation.
SUMSearch
SUMSearch is a single gateway that attempts to provide references to answer clinical questions around diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and therapy (plus physical findings, adverse treatment effects and screening/prevention) by searching only high-quality sources. SUMSearch always searches: 1. Merck Manual. 2. MEDLINE for review articles and editorials that have full texts available. 3. National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) 4. Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) 5. MEDLINE for original research. Depending of the focus requested SUMSearch will search PubMed with the highest sensitivity filters developed by Haynes et al.
This resource, hosted by the Centre for Research Support in Wales, aims to support those working in primary care.The database has 8000 links covering resources at 28 different centres and allows both boolean searching (AND, OR, NOT) and truncation.
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