JABSOM Library: Residents' Resources and Services: Evidence-Based Medicine

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Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence-Based Medicine (University of Hawaii-JABSOM Library)

Background Information/Expert Opinion

ClinicalKey: Clinical Overviews
Clinical Overviews (formerly First Consult) is an evidence-based clinical information resource for healthcare professionals. Designed for use at point of care, it provides instant, user-friendly access to the latest information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis, and prevention.
CRD Databases
From the UK's National Institute for Health Research Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Includes DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects), NHS EED (Economic Evaluation Database), HTA (Health Technology Assessment) Database.

Databases

Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)
DARE contains 15,000 abstracts of systematic reviews including over 6,000 quality assessed reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols. The database focuses on the effects of interventions used in health and social care. From UK's National Institute for Health Research

Databases - Research Literature

PubMed MEDLINE
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. University of Hawaii login required.

Search PubMed MEDLINE for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), Cohort Studies and Case-Controlled Studies

Click on link to PubMed from the Library and click on "Clinical Queries" under "PubMed Tools" (middle column) OR go to "Advanced Search" and under "More Resources" at the end of the page, click on "Clinical Queries."

May search by categories such as Therapy, Diagnosis, and Prognosis and limit to broad or narrow. Narrow produces the best evidence.

Please ask librarians for assistance: 808-692-0810 or hslinfo@hawaii.edu

Mobile PubMed Related Databases from NLM
This is a link to a trio of databases from the National Library of Medicine. They all contain besides the usual PubMed Abstracts a "TBL" (The Bottom Line) summary. http://www.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/lhc/docs/published/2009/pub2009053.pdf Note that the first database gives you a PICO interface.
SUMSearch2
SUMSearch simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines from multiple sources. Results from PubMed, Dare, and NGC are merged and sorted. As SUMSearch executes live searches of external websites in response to your query, SUMSearch is always up-to-date. Click on the "PMID" link to citations for access to full-text HSL library sub..may require logging into your MyNCBI account to see holdings icons
TRIP Database
The TRIP Database is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. For access to the full text, log in to the database via this link. For the most part the publisher's icons will link to the full-text of our subscribed resources. Another way to get to the full text of the articles is that when you link to a PubMed citation login to your MY NCBI account and the UH Manoa icons will appear again.

Databases- Critically Appraised Topics

The following databases are searchable by subject and includes critically appraised topics.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Note: This database is no longer updated. See ECRI Guidelines.
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Databases - Critically Appraised Individual Articles

ACP Journal Club
Critiques of the published research articles and systematic reviews. Publication of the American College of Physicians.
Evidence Based Medicine
Journal from BMJ collection of journals. Critiques individual published studies from other journals.
Evidence Based Mental Health
Journal from BMJ collection of journals. Critiques individual published studies from other journals.

Rational Clinical Examination Series from JAMA

Articles from this series cannot be easily searched in PubMed as the words "Rational Clinical Examination" are not indexed. It is best to use Google Scholar and do the following search:

"rational clinical examination" jama

Quotes are used to force Google Scholar to search the words as a phrase.

Also be sure to search Google Scholar via the Library's link for access to the full text articles. It is not perfect but most of the series can be identified that way.

Tutorials & Guides

The following resources provide health information on a variety of health topics in many languages.

Basic Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice Resources
University of Washington--arranged by types of evidence.
Evidence-Based Practice Tools Summary
University of Washington
How to Read a Paper
Papers from BMJ on reading different kinds of journal articles.
Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
Developed by staff at the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
JAMA's Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series
Papers originally published in JAMA. You will be prompted to login to PubMed MEDLINE first. Unfortunately Find It icons don't appear but because you have logged in you should be able to click on the JAMA icon and retrieve the full-text article from 1998 to present. Earlier articles are available in the Library Stacks.