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.
Can UV nail lamps used for gel manicures cause cancer? In early 2023, this question has been raised in the media. What is the evidence behind the headline?
Evidence gap maps (EGMs) are graphic representations of the available systematic reviews and ongoing research on relevant topics. Learn more, and test your understanding, in this blog for beginners to the topic.
A living systematic review is a type of review which is continually updated, incorporating relevant new evidence as it becomes available.
The Trip database has recently had a major revamp so now is a good time to look again at what Trip is and how it can be of benefit to S4BE members.
What is grey literature, when would you use it, what are its advantages and disadvantages, and how can you find it?
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.
A brief introduction and tips for students embarking on a rapid review, when they should be used, and their advantages and limitations.
Following the addition of new features and updates on the Cochrane Library, Hasan provides an illustrative summary of which features he has found most useful.
Yousif examines the HIP ATTACK trial, appraises the primary composite endpoint, verifies the assessment and then thinks of ways to interpret the result.
COVID-19 has highlighted the inefficiencies that exist in clinical research, as well as the frailties of the current publishing system. This blog examines two prominent examples from the pandemic.
The role of social media in the COVID-19 crisis relative to the contribution of scientific research globally.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical health researchers face the delicate balancing act of producing rigorous, reliable research, but doing so in as short a timeframe as possible.
Concerns are being raised whether the medical field can play by the same rules as the other sciences when it comes to preprints. Yunus Gokkir discusses benefits and risks of preprints in this blog.
Carrying out a systematic, unbiased, transparent and reliable literature search is vital in the first stages of your research. This blog provides tips and useful information on which resources can help guide you in this process.
Healthcare guidelines are an invaluable aspect of evidence-based healthcare. This blog by Neelam sheds some light on what a Guideline is, and what is isn’t.
Is evidence-based medicine a fairy tale? With this in mind, Foo Wee brings her personal experience into a review of the evidence available for analgesic treatment of G6PD deficient children. This blog won 2nd prize in the recent Cochrane Malaysia blog writing competition.
This blog provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a systematic literature search.
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.
I did it. I’ve been inducted. Ascended to a higher plain of existence. Yes, that’s right: I am now a Wikipedia editor. And it actually wasn’t that hard.
Here are 10 of the multiple available health apps to improve your efficiency in clinical practice and research. Most of them are free, enjoy…
Ready to get involved with editing Wikipedia? Read Ammar’s guide.
In search of a book with simple, comprehensible definitions and examples of clinical evidence? Do you want to take the first step in understanding common terms in clinical evidence as well as commonly used methods and their pitfalls? This review will inform you if this is the book you’re looking for.
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!
Evidence Aid provides brief summaries of evidence to assist decision makers in disasters and other humanitarian emergencies.
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.
Faculty of 1000 is a quadruple resource that allows you to search for articles, publish your own material in an open-access journal, and provides you with a place to store your posters and presentation slides. Check it out!
The Trip database provides a new way of searching for evidence, including useful features like sorting by evidence quality.
Need something for your EBM task? Check out EBHC wiki!! You will find it there..
NICE (UK) provides thorough, comprehensive summaries of the investigation and management of common presentation in a primary care setting.
The NHS Evidence website provides a great starting block for many clinical questions, gathering information from several NHS websites as well as several journals.
Find out how you can use Twitter to find out the latest healthcare-related information.
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.
The Clinical Evidence database is from the BMJ Evidence Centre. It is a fee-based resource for medical professionals to learn, teach and practice evidence-based medicine.
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.
Check out the new Patient Information Forum website. great info on how to produce health information for patients.
CRD in York have combined three databases for systematic review, economic evaluations, tech assessments and summaries. It includes all Cochrane reviews and protocols.
A guideline database for those based in the UK, USA, Canada & New Zealand.
This one hour online module on the core principles of EBM aimed at a wide range of healthcare personnel from GP’s to medical students. To access BMJ learning requires a subscription, although if you have a BMA membership it’s available for free.
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