Resources for clinicians

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PubMed

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million biomedical citations from about 5200 journals . It is the prime bibliographic database in biomedicine and It has been identified with jazz music as one of two greatest gifts that America has given to the rest of the world
Up to the minute evidence; Primary articles; Biomedical citations;
studies

EMBASE

EMBASE.com is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database, which provides access to the most up-to-date citations and abstracts from biomedical and drug literature via EMBASE and Medline. It contains over 19 million indexed records from 7,000+ peer reviewed journals, covering 1947 to date, with more than 600,000 additions annually.
Primary articles; less American bias than PubMed;
studies

Web of Science

The Web of Science include the Science citation Index + Social Science CI + Arts & Humanities CT. It has approximately 37 million records from 8, 830 titles indexed from 230 disciplines. Each article includes the bibliography (called the cited reference
Primary; Extensive than PubMed; Journal citations; Quality;
studies

PsycInfo

Includes abstracts (not full-text) of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present
Psychological; Primary;
studies

EBM Journal

Surveys a wide range of international medical journals applying strict criteria for the quality and validity of research. Practising clinicians assess the clinical relevance of the best studies. The key details of these essential s
EBM summaries
synopses

Cochrane Reviews

Cochrane reviews are based on the best available information about healthcare interventions. They explore the evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments (medications, surgery, education, etc) in specific circumstances.
Systematic reviews
syntheses

ACP Journal Club

Includes articles from biomedical literature that report original studies and systematic reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal medicine. These articles are summar
EBM summaries with explicit grading for internal medicine and primary care
synopses

BMJ Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence provides up to date systematic reviews of the best evidence for over 240 medical conditions across a broad range of clinical specialities. It is neither a textbook of medicine nor a set of guidelines. 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.
EBM treatment summaries for a limited number of questions seen in primary care
summaries

BestBETs

BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account the shortcomings of
Emergency medicine, cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics
synopses

UpToDate

UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care.
Extensively referenced and quarterly updated clinical summaries than can be drilled down to primary studies in Medline
summaries

DynaMed

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. With clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics, DynaMed has been shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Based on the results of a study published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005), not only did primary care clinicians answer more clinical questions with access to DynaMed than without DynaMed, but these clinicians also found more answers in DynaMed that changed clinical decisions.
EBM summaries for mainly primary care
synopses

OVID Journals

Journals@Ovid Full Text - is available through CIAP. OVID can searche Medline, Embase, All EBM reviews including Cochrane, Clinical Evidence, ACP Journals Club - either ALL at once or a combination of your choice
Combining Studies, Synopses or Synthese - Full Text articles
supermega

Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP)

CIAP) provides information and resources to support evidence-based practice at the point of care. This resource is available to all nurses, midwives, doctors, allied health, community health, ancillary and library staff working in the NSW public health sy
Everything EBM, Journals, Books - FREE For Australian healthcare workers in NSW
supermega

ADEPT - ScHARR

A distance learning module on - Applying Diagnosis Etiology Prognosis and Therapy methodological filters for retrieving the evidence - using Power Point slides
Learning to retrive information
hands-on

ISI -Web of Knowledge

An integrated, versatile research platform, delivers easy access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as search and analysis tools that enhance this content. It simultaneously searches * Multidisciplinary resources such as Web of Science®, the renowned citation database * Specialized resources such as BIOSIS Previews® and CAB Abstracts® * Analytical tools such as JCR and the Analyze Tool * Bibliographic management tools such as EndNote®
Everthing - Measures quality / impact by 'journal impact factor'
studies

Bandolier

Bandolier is a website about the use of evidence in health, healthcare, and medicine. The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put 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.
EBM summaries in bullet points
synopses

WebMD

A web portal that provides quality healthcare informtion to consumers, physicians, employers and health plan members
Doctors, consumers
webportal

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformula
Best for laypersons seeking authoratative health information
webportal

CKS

A source of clinical knowledge for the NHS about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care. Practical and reliable, it helps healthcare professionals confidently make evidence-based decisions about the healthcare of their patients and provides the know-how to safely put these decisions into action.
Best for common first contact care conditions
summaries

EB-On-Call

In this evidence compendia you will find evidence-based summaries of 38 on-call medical conditions. Every recommendation links via a + icon to a short summary of the evidence which in turn link to one-page summaries (called CATs) of every article used via a cat icon
Hospital Emergency Care Physicians
synopses

TRIP

A service from UK to allow users to access the best possible evidence on the web
Rapidly identifying EBM sources for doctors
synopses

NeLH

The UK equivalent to CIAP. It aims to provide clinicians with access to the best current know-how and knowledge to support healthcare-related decisions. Most of the content are free.
A web portal like resource for all healthcare workers
supermega

HealthInsite

Australian government initiative to imporve the health of Australian by providing easy to access quality information about human health
Best for laypersons seeking authoratative health information
webportal

CINAHL

The premier database covering nursing and allied health.
Nurses and allied health
studies

PIER

American college of Physicians EBM resource
summaries

eTherapeutic Guidelines

Therapeutic Guidelines Limited is an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to deriving guidelines for therapy from the latest world literature, interpreted and distilled by Australia's most eminent and respected experts.
Doctors in Australia
summaries

NHS-Evidence

EB textbook of Medicine
summaries

Best Treatments

Tell readers which treatments really work and which don't work, based on the best and most up-to-date medical research. BestTreatments is the only website that rates thousands of health and medical treatments, based on how well they work.
Lay persons
webportal

NHS-Evidence

NHS Evidence provide easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources – including clinicians, public health professionals, commissioners and service managers – thus improving health and patient care. It provides access to a range of information types, including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents.
Doctors, public health professionals, managers
synopses

BMJ Best Practice

Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care. In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. Its unique patient-focused approach represents a major new advancement in information delivery at the point of care
Doctors
summaries

The Cochrane Library

Independent high quality evidence for health care decision making. Includes seven different component including the CDSR
Doctors, other healthcare professionals
syntheses

Cochrane Primary Care Helath Field /

To promote the quality, quantity, dissemination, accessibility, applicability and impact of Cochrane systematic reviews relevant to people who work in primary care
Primary care doctors
syntheses

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