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Evidence-Based Databases

All of these databases are available through Ovid.

EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club

The ACP Journal Club Collection consists of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group.  The editors of ACP Journal Club screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.

 

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

CCTR (formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register) is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials.  CCTR contains over 300,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care. Cochrane groups and other organizations contribute their specialized registers; and these registers—together with references to clinical trials identified in MEDLINE and EMBASE—form the CCTR database. Contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration follow quality control standards to ensure that only reports of definite randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials are included.

 

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration.  Cochrane is available through Ovid.

 

EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects

The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) is a Full Text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE is produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England, and consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from all over the world. DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.  DARE is available through Ovid.

 

EBM Reviews Full Text - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE

This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the three Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE).

 

All EBM Reviews - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, and CCTR

This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the four Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register-CCTR)(CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE).

 

Medline

Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline is available through PubMed, Ovid, or FirstSearch.

Publication types for limiting searches to Evidence-Based retrieval in Medline:

  • Clinical Trial

  • Clinical Trial, Phase I

  • Clinical Trial, Phase II

  • Clinical Trial, Phase III

  • Clinical Trial, Phase IV

  • Consensus Development Conference

  • Consensus Development Conference, NIH

  • Guideline

  • Meta-Analysis

  • Practice Guidelines

  • Randomized Controlled Trial

Cinahl

The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.  Cinahl is available through Ovid.

Publication types for limiting searches to Evidence-Based retrieval in Cinahl:

  • Clinical Trial

  • Nursing Interventions

  • Practice Guidelines

  • Research

  • Research Instrument

  • Standards

  • Systematic Review

Ovid Technologies

 

Evidence-Based Links

The Journal of Family Practice

A list of POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) published in the Journal of Family Practice.

 

Bandolier

Bandolier is a print and Internet journal about health care, using evidence-based medicine techniques to provide advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals and consumers.

 

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.

 

Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence-Based Medicine is a bi-monthly journal designed to alert clinicians to scientifically meritorious and clinically important advances in treatment, diagnosis and clinical prediction, aetiology, prognosis, economics, and quality improvement.  WE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THIS JOURNAL.

 

Evidence-Based Nursing

Evidence-Based Nursing is a quarterly journal designed to alert practicing nurses to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment, diagnosis, aetiology, and prognosis.

 

Evidence-Based On-Call

This database is designed for hospital clinicians who want to integrate the best available evidence with their own personal skills and expertise to improve the care of their patients. The site comprises two sections:  Guides and CATs.  CATs form the basis of all our material. A CAT is a Critically Appraised Topic, i.e. a summary of the evidence contained in a medical journal article.  Guides provide bullet-point recommendations on the diagnosis and management of a range of on-call conditions. Each guide is divided into sections, such as diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, etc.

 

Evidence-based Practice Centers

A list of available evidence reports.

 

PubMed

PubMed is an Internet interface for MEDLINE.  Using the 'Clinical Queries' feature in PubMed, you can restrict retrieval to articles that are most likely to answer your clinical question.

 

Evidence-Based Guidelines

American Pain Society

 

Association for Women's Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nursing

 

Primary Care Clinical Guidelines

Index to primary care clinical guidelines

 

US National Guideline Clearinghouse

The National Guideline Clearinghouse is a database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.

 

Evidence-Based Protocols

These can be found in the library's print collection.

Acute Pain Management in the Elderly with Quick Reference Guides/2000

Advance Directives Protocol with Quick Reference Guide and Consumer Information Sheet

Alzheimer's Disease and Chronic Dementing Illness Protocol

Bathing persons with dementia

Consumer Info Sheet

Detection of depression in the cognitively intact older adult

Elderly Suicide: Secondary Prevention

Exercise Promotion: Walking in Elders Protocol with Consumer Information Sheet

Guidelines for Writing Evidence-Based Practice Protocols

Hydration management

Identification, Referral, and Support of Elders with Genetic Conditions Protocol

Individualized Music Protocol with Quick Reference Guide and Consumer Information Sheet

Interpreter Facilitation for Persons with Limited English Proficiency Protocol

Management of Constipation Protocol with Consumer Information Sheet

Music Therapy Programming for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Protocol

Nurse Retention Protocol

Prevention of deep vein thrombosis

Prevention of Falls Protocol

Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Protocol

Progressive Resistance Training (PRT) Protocol

Prompted voiding for persons with urinary incontinence

Restraints Protocol with Quick Reference Guide

Split-thickness skin graft donor site care

Treatment of pressure ulcers

Wandering Protocol

More books are available in the library.  Check our online catalog, CarlWeb.

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12/20/2007