Evidence-Based Medicine

ACP's PIER: Physician's Information and Education Resource & AHFS DI Essentials

Bandolier: The intention behind Bandolier is 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.

Cochrane Library: The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects and other databases.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE): A database of
quality assessed reviews written by staff from the NHS Centre for Reviews
and Dissemination.

Dynamed: A medical information database with over 1,800 clinical topic summaries that is designed for use at the point of care. Links to supporting literature are provided, updated daily.

Effective Clinical Practice: Online journal from the American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine, focusing on the interface between health services research and clinical practice. Effective Clinical Practice seeks to answer questions about how best and how often to deliver medical care.

Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Medicine: Search Online Journals for title.

Evidence-Based Complimentary and Alternative Medicine: Issues start in December of 2004. Freely available on PubMed Central.

Evidence-Based Gastroenterology: Sear Online Journals for title.

Evidence-Based Healthcare and Public Health: Search Online Journal for title.

Evidence-Based Obstetrics and Gynecology: Search Online Journals for title.

Evidence-Based Oncology: Search Online Journals for title.

Evidence-Based Medicine: Free online journal available from BMJ.

Evidence-Based Mental Health: Free online journal available from BMJ.

Evidence Matters: A new, user-friendly system to help choose the best therapy options for a specific patient with a confirmed diagnosis. Using a simple ask-a-question interface, you can retrieve the latest peer-reviewed research results. The results are organized in an evidence-based manner into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety, and cost.

National Guideline Clearinghouse: a resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Evidence Based Practice - While many of the above are also useful to Nursing and Allied Health professionals, the below are specifically designed for Evidence-Based Practice.

Joanna Briggs Institute: an evidence based practice database of a collaborative (nursing, medicine and allied health professionals) evaluation of "evidence derived from a diverse range of resources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigours research and and the synthesis, transfer and utilisation of the 'best available ' evidence into health care practice". (from the JBI website)

OT Seeker: OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions.