TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Database Plus
Simultaneously searches evidence-based websites of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically-appraised topics and articles – including most of those listed above and many more. Also searches MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets.
A clinical information resource, which offers up-to-date, fully referenced expert answers to patient-care, diagnosis, and treatment questions. Topic reviews are written by recognized authorities who review the topic, synthesize the evidence, summarize key findings, and provide specific recommendations.
Summarizes the current state of knowledge about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions, based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs, and observational studies where appropriate, and if there is no good evidence it says so.
A database of evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, with additional teaching material, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.
Consultant - Veterinary
This veterinary diagnostic support system is used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including: 1) a general description, 2) species affected, 3) the signs/symptoms associated with it, and 4) a list of recent literature references.
A clinical reference tool with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, which monitors the content of medical journals and systematic evidence review databases through journal review services. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity, and the new evidence is then integrated with existing content, with overall conclusions being drawn from the best available evidence. A version for mobile devices is also available through Penn's trial of the service.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. Updated weekly.
Note: Guideline evidence varies from expert opinion to high levels of evidence.
Bandolier is an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare published in the UK. It includes "information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and puts the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies."
The editors of this journal screen the top 100+ clinical journals and identify studies that are methodologically sound and clinically relevant. An enhanced abstract, with conclusions clearly stated, and a commentary are provided for each selected article. Published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
(e.g., Evidence-Based Medicine, Evidence-Based Mental Health, Evidence-Based Nursing) Primary research articles within the discipline are selected for quality and clinical relevance. A structured abstract and expert commentary are provided for each study.
A service in which articles from a variety of journals are systematically reviewed and rated for clinical relevance and newsworthiness, by at least 3 practitioners for each discipline for which the article might be pertinent. Provides a searchable bibliographic database, as well as email updates to users alerting them to new research in their stated fields of interest. Free registration is required.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Consists of detailed, structured topic reviews of hundreds of articles. Teams of experts complete comprehensive literature reviews, evaluate the literature, and present summaries of the findings of the best studies. Published by the International Cochrane Collaboration.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect (DARE)
Full-text database containing structured abstracts of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE is produced by the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York. DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.
JBI COnNECT+ (Joanna Briggs Institute)
The Joanna Briggs Institute specializes in promoting and supporting evidence-based healthcare by providing access to resources for professionals in nursing, midwifery, medicine, and allied health. With over 64 collaborating centers and groups, servicing over 90 countries, the Institute is a recognised global leader in evidence-based healthcare. JBI COnNECT+ is an online web-based facility that provides users with resources and tools to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise and evaluate evidence-based information.
Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)
Full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information, developed by the National Library of Medicine.
Systematic Reviews searches in PubMed and MEDLINE:
CINAHL
A database providing authoritative coverage of the literature related to
nursing and allied health. Indexes over 950 journals, but also includes
healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference
proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software
and audiovisual materials in nursing. Primarily indexes abstracts, but
also includes some full text. You may use the Search Options to refine
your retrieval to Clinical Queries including: Therapy, Prognosis,
Review, Qualitative, and Causation. You have a choice of High
Sensitivity, High Specificity, or Best Balance for each Query selection.
Provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines. The database covers over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE, particularly international titles.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
A bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials, providing a
source of data for systematic reviews. Provides coverage where existing
bibliographic databases may be inadequate for the identification of all
relevant studies. Published by the International Cochrane Collaboration
in co-operation with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and with
Reed Elsevier.
Clinical Queries searches in PubMed, MEDLINE, and CINAHL:
Physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The evidence-based content provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes multiple levels of physician peer review.
The complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Edition.
An online library of medical electronic resources. Penn's subscription includes a number of dental textbooks.
Reviews searches in PubMed and MEDLINE:
Full-text electronic books.
This page based on the "5S" Pyramid of Evidence Resources from the Indiana University School of Medicine Libraries, the "5S" Pyramid of Evidence Resources by Sladen Library at Henry Ford Health System, the Dartmouth EBM Page Generator, and Haynes RB, ACP J Club 2006;145(3):A8.
Created February 2011.
