Learn more about the Epistemonikos Foundation and its repository of healthcare systematic reviews. The first in a series of three blogs.
Learn how to use the Epistemonikos database, the world’s largest multilingual repository of healthcare evidence. The second in a series of three blogs.
Discover more about the ‘Living OVerview of Evidence’ platform from Epistemonikos, which maps the best evidence relevant for making health decisions. The final blog in a series of three focusing on the Epistemonikos Foundation.
Carrying out a literature search can feel daunting when faced with the task. This blog introduces you to the main databases available to enable a comprehensive search of the medical literature.
This blog provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a systematic literature search.
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Advances in technology now allow huge amounts of data to be handled simultaneously. Katherine takes a look at how this can be used in healthcare and how it can be exploited.
Angel Wong introduces the Cochrane Textbook of Neurology, an on-line library for Cochrane systematic reviews on neurology and neurosurgery.
In the third in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Mathura Mahendren looks at Health Systems Evidence, an information resource for people interested in public health policy.
In the second in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Harkanwal Randhawa examines Health Evidence™, a database of systematic reviews around the subject of public health.
In the first in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Mathura Mahendren gets to know the Optimum Aging Portal, a resource for communicating evidence-based ways of staying healthy in older age.
PubMed Health – a good place to start your search for health-based evidence
Faculty of 1000 just announced that their subsite – F1000Trials – is finished with the beta-testing. Let’s check it out!
PDQ-Evidence is a database specifically for finding evidence related to public health and health policy.
A fantastic resource for easily getting hold of the best available evidence relating to your clinical speciality.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a free database at the US Department of Health & Human Services. It provides summaries of evidence, clinical guidelines and more.
The Trip database provides a new way of searching for evidence, including useful features like sorting by evidence quality.
The NHS Evidence website provides a great starting block for many clinical questions, gathering information from several NHS websites as well as several journals.
This is a website from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, providing a list of databases and research tools for primary papers and secondary (reviews etc.) Also provides tools for constructing systematic reviews.
A free, multilingual database. It includes systematic reviews, overviews of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.
This resource is a tutorial, providing a thorough introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). It describes in detail how to formulate specific questions when searching for evidence on a problem, how to find this evidence using online databases, and how to evaluate and appraise the evidence found. It also outlines the economic modelling and cost-assessments behind healthcare choices.
This a free database from the Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF) at the University of Birmingham, UK. The majority of reviews relate to the effectiveness of drugs, devices or other healthcare interventions.
List of suggested, helpful resources from the team at CASP. Including: summaries, critical appraisals, meta-analyses, guidelines & databases.
CRD in York have combined three databases for systematic review, economic evaluations, tech assessments and summaries. It includes all Cochrane reviews and protocols.
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