Brief history and overview with examples of how to formulate questions and use the resources available through this web site. Includes short video demonstrations of finding EBP content in ACP's PIER (2:04 min), Cochrane Library (2:39 min.), PubMed (4:42 min.), and Gale's Health Reference Center Academic, a NOVELNY provided resource (2:15 min.) (This last resource is no longer provided through NYS but a similar Gale Heath & Wellness Resource Center is available)

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The Cochrane Library includes several different databases, the most recognized being the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)- a collection of searchable full text systematic reviews which are now updated monthly. Reviews can be lengthy- 40-60-80 pages.

For clinicians, researchers, patients, and policy-makers

Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager.

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Published by the American College of Physicians but also useful for non-physican healthcare providers

• Truly evidenced-based
• Defines the current standard of care
• Frequently updated (Monthly Content Updates and Module Additions)
• Consistently structured for rapid access
• Search or browse by organ system
• Integrated drug reference (AHFS DI Essentials)
• Topics are selected based upon prevalence in clinical settings.
• Evidence gathered by literature review and evaluated based on formal criteria.
• The level of evidence for each recommendation is displayed clearly.
• Includes topics in complementary and alternative medicine, ethical and legal issues and procedures.

Contained in each module are criteria for treatment, rationale for each practice, and extensive reference lists which link to the article abstracts in PubMed.

Additional information for patients and health care providers on diagnosis, treatment, consultation, follow-up and specific web links for further information.

Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager.

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This powerful database contains citations to clinical and research articles in medicine, nursing, allied health, dental and veterinary medicine with abstracts and links to full text when available.

Look for the filter information top right of your result page.When you select your hospital filter or free full text filter, you should be able to view, print, or save the full article.

When viewing individual articles, look for your hospital logo which indicates full text is available.

Over 5,000 journals indexed with many languages represented. Most of the articles can be obtained without charge through other libraries quickly. Contact your librarian or library manager.

1. Single Citation Matcher allows you to verify a reference easily
2. Clinical Queries helps find clinical studies and systematic reviews
3. Limits allow more focused results, ie. Core Clinical Journals, Nursing, Publication Type, or Topics: AIDS, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, Systematic Reviews
4. Loansome Doc allows you to request PubMed articles directly through your medical library's electronic ordering system - contact your library manager for details.

MyNCBI allows you to save searches, have updated searches sent regularly to your email, and more. Free registration required.

Your library has LINKOUT, so you can link directly to full text of online journals by clicking on the hospital library icons.

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Evidence-based thinking about health care: Oxford Pain Site, Healthy Living Links, searchable by age groups

e-mail alert feature for site updates, online journal updated irregularly

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BMJ Publishing Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit are collaborating to provide you with access to current best evidence from research, tailored to your own health care interests, to support evidence-based clinical decisions.

This service is unique: all citations (from over 150 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians.

Users of EvidenceUpdates with interests in a specific clinical problem or treatment are invited to use the openly accessible search engine to look up topics covered in the McMaster PLUS database published as far back as 2002.

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Enhanced features and free resources as well as some that require subscription.

Hospitals may rceive the annual edition through the United Health Foundation. With the print edition in hand, you can register for frree online access for the year as well.

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DERP is a collaboration of public entities, the Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, who have joined together to produce systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes, and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities in local settings.

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The DERP project produces systematic literature reviews of drug classes. Components of these reviews include Key Questions, Draft Reports and Evidence Tables, and Final Reports and Evidence Tables.

Project funded through 20012 and NYS Department of Health among the supporting organizations.

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SUMSearch is a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet. SUMSearch combines meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence.
After searching, SUMSearch organizes the list of links to documents that it returns to the clinician. The links are ordered by breadth of discussion. First, there are links to resources that provide broad discussion: relevant textbooks, followed by traditional review articles, and practice guidelines. Next there are links to resources that provide narrow discussions: systematic reviews, and original research. Thus, the clinician that is searching a topic with which they are not familiar, will find links to easy to read, broad discussions at the top of the list. A clinician that has a specific question within a topic with which they otherwise familiar, will find links to systematic reviews and original research in the second half of the results.
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Evidence-Based Nursing surveys a wide range of international medical journals applying strict criteria for the quality and validity of research. Practising clinicians assess the clinical relevance of the best studies. The key details of these essential studies are presented in a succinct, informative abstract with an expert commentary on its clinical application.

Published quarterly, Evidence-Based Nursing is designed to alert practising nurses to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment, diagnosis, aetiology, and prognosis. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group and the Royal College of Nursing Publishing Company, EBN selects and examines every aspect of the very best international nursing research for your practice.

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The goal of this website is the investigation of the field of Evidence Based Nursing. Literature searching and web searching was conducted to discover useful articles and web resources about evidence based practice targeted for nursing professionals and students. a

While it is not intended to serve strictly as a teaching module on EBN, the resources mentioned and the site layout may be helpful for those desiring to learn more about the topic and may be a useful starting point in the creation of a more expansive and in-depth teaching tutorial. The site is aimed at the audience of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and therefore includes links to journals, databases, and resources that may only be accessed by affiliates of the University.

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Tutorial showing examples of:

ACP PIER, Cochrane, OT Seeker, PEDro, and National Guidelines Clearinghouse

Using U of Minnesota examples but applicable to hospital web resources above.

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Established in 1996, the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is now a growing, dynamic international collaboration across 40 countries in every continent.

While some countries have universal access, the US does not (yet?). Institutional memberships are available- somewhat pricey, some content is free

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McMaster University's free, subscription service incorporates the McMaster PLUS email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the medical literature.
Users of Best Evidence for Nursing+ with interests in a specific clinical problem or treatment are invited to use the search engine to look up topics covered in the McMaster PLUS database published as far back as 2002.
Nurses who are in general practice or primary care, internal medicine or its subspecialties are invited to register their interests so that they can receive email alerts and searching access for literature that is matched to their personal clinical interests.
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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.

Updated monthly, content pages are dated

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International free resource updated monthly
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Free Registration Required
The current features include:
Systematic review of over 150 journals (including quarterly updates of the Cochrane Library) with selection of articles by expert research staff according to explicit criteria, with high reproducibility and periodic quality assurance checks
Ratings of each eligible article for clinical relevance and newsworthiness ....
E-mail alerts about new evidence, tailored to the user's interest profile and adjustable for their time demands. Each alert includes MORE clinical ratings and comments, and electronic links to the article's abstract via PubMed..
Cumulative searchable database of the alerts (from mid-2007 forward)
User interface allowing each user to register their health care interests, leading to matching of those interests to the appropriate "virtual" subset of the accumulating database

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