EBP: Databases:
Medline for Evidence-Based Practice
PubMed Medline Clinical Queries Quickly identify evidence based articles on a topic including systematic reviews, using this filter from PubMed. Systematic reviews,including Cochrane reviews, are included in a seperate section.
My NCBI My NCBI allows users to save searches or groups of citations, and sort results for tabbed browsing so that any search is automatically filtered into evidence related clusters.
PubMed (MEDLINE) Search for clinical trials or systematic reviews in biomedical journals. MEDLINE includes 20 million journal citations.
MEDLINE (via Ovid) Search for clinical trials or systematic reviews in biomedical journals. Use the Limit menu labeled "Clinical Queries" to access high quality clinical trials on specific clinical topics.
Point of Care Clinical Resources
Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) is a comprehensive clinical decision support system. EE+ provides a number of diagnostic calculators and daily delivery of POEMs. POEMs examine a clinical question, provide a bottom line, and review the pertinent information to help guide practice. EE+ is optimized for mobile devices.
Micromedex HealthCare Series Comprehensive disease and drug information resource including major drug references and annotations written by PharmDs. Available for smartphones, look under the mobileMicromedex for instructions.
UpToDate Point of care clinical information resource written by physician authors. Articles now grade the evidence A-B-C For an example, search "lipid lowering drugs", click on "Intensity of lipid lowering therapy in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease", then view the "Summary and Recommendations" section.
Databases of Evidence and Search Engines
Clinical Trials National Institutes of Health database of clinical research studies
Cochrane Library (via Wiley) Premier evidence based medicine resource composed of:
Current Controlled Trials Allows users to search, register and share information about randomized controlled trials.
Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT) A free resource from AHRQ, providing full-text documents that support health care decision making. Links to NCBI Bookshelf.
National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Cochrane Neonatal Resource for systematic reviews of child health topics.
Centre for Reviews Resource for systematic reviews of health economics and technology assessment. Also maintains the DARE database included in Cochrane.
OTseeker Critically appraised and rated abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy, designed to provide evaluations of validity and interpretability.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database Critically appraised and rated abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to physical therapy, designed to provide evaluations of validity and interpretability.
PrimeAnswers Locate high quality, evidence based medical literature using this meta search engine. Some resources in the results list may require subscriptions that the Greenblatt Library does not provide, but many of our resources are included in the results.
BioMedLib A search engine for MEDLINE. Increases specificity and precision of retrieval by searching for query words within sentences rather than the whole article. It uses sentence-level concurrence as a statistical surrogate for the existence of relationship between the words. It also estimates a relevance score and sorts the results on this basis, thus shifting irrelevant articles lower down the list.
SUMSearch Identify sources of evidence based information using this meta search engine.
TRIP Database Locate high quality, evidence based medical literature using this meta search engine.
Databases for EBP Guidelines
Guidelines International Network Links to worldwide sources of guidelines. Organized by health topic (see Public Section).
NHS National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) British evidence based guidance on technology use, clinical care, and interventional procedures.
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Rigorous, impartial assessments of the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of a broad range of clinical preventative services, including screening, counseling, and preventive medications.
Cochrane Library (via Wiley) Premier evidence based medicine resource composed of:
Micromedex Healthcare Series Comprehensive disease and drug information resource including major drug references and annotations written by PharmDs. Available for smartphones, look under mobile Micromedex for instructions.