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International Links - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

A rapidly growing collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of the effects of health care, maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. New reviews are added with each issue of The Cochrane Library. Cochrane reviews are reviews mainly of randomized controlled trials. Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria to minimize bias. Data are often combined statistically, with metaanalysis, to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies each too small to produce reliable results individually. Although the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is available on subscription only, the Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews are available without charge and can be browsed or searched.

 

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a quarterly updated electronic database containing systematic reviews and other information that will assist in making diagnostic, treatment and other health care decisions. It is the most comprehensive source of references for those with an interest in evidence-based health care. The Cochrane Library consists of four main databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and The Cochrane Review Methodology Database.
http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/cdsr.htm


Cochrane Library [Abstracts]

This facility from Update Software allows you to search the abstracts of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The full-text of the reviews is only available through the Cochrane Library above.
http://www.update-software.com/abstracts/Default2.htm


Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness

DARE is a database of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York.
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm


Evidence Based Health Care - Latest Articles

A list of the latest articles on Evidence Based Health Care provided by the Evidence Based resource Centre in New York.
http://www.ebmny.org/pubs.html


Guideline

Guideline is a UK-based initiative to develop an electronic database of critically appraised, clinical practice guidelines for health and allied care professionals across the National Health Service (NHS). The project began in March 1997 and is funded by the four health authorities of Oxford shire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Northampton shire until August 1998.
http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/guidelines/index.html


Health Technology Advisory Committee Evaluation Reports

Reports and issue briefs from the HTAC in Minnesota.
http://www.health.state.mn.us/htac/techrpts.htm


Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database

The HTA Database, mounted by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, contains abstracts produced by INAHTA (International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment) and other healthcare technology agencies.
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/htahp.htm


InfoPOEMS

Searchable database of POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) from the Journal of Family Practice. POEMS are summaries similar to ACP Journal Club articles in methodology and format, targeted at family practitioners.
http://www.infopoems.com/POEMs/POEMs_Home.htm


Medical SmartSearch

Medical SmartSearch is a single gateway that attempts to provide references to answer Clinical questions around diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and therapy (plus physical Findings, adverse treatment effects and screening/prevention) by searching only high quality sources. Smartsearch always searches:

  1. Merck Manual.
  2. MEDLINE for review articles and editorials that have full texts available.
  3. National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
  4. Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
  5. MEDLINE for original research.

Depending of the focus requested SmartSearch would search PubMed with the highest sensitivity filters developed by Haynes et al.
http://smartsearch.uthscsa.edu/cgibin/smartsearch.exe


National Library of Medicine's Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)

This WWW resource contains the following collections: AHCPR Supported Guidelines, AHCPR Technology Assessments and Reviews, ATIS (HIV/AIDS Technical Information), NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Research Studies, NIH Consensus Development Program, PHS Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (1989) and SAMHSA/CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP).
http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/gateway


National Research Register

The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service. The current release contains information on over 57,000 research projects, as well as entries from the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.
http://www.update-software.com/National/nrr-frame.html


NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)

The NHS Economic Evaluation Database is a database of structured abstracts of economic evaluations of health care interventions produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York.
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/nhsdhp.htm


PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database

PEDro, an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP). PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give physiotherapists and others rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help to quickly discriminate between trials, which are likely to be valid and interpretable, and those, which are not.
http://pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/


Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines

This site will include all guidelines, evidence-based, consensus, practice parameters, protocols, as well as other resources such as primary articles, integrative studies, metaanalysis, critically appraised topics, and review articles. Compiled by Peter Sam at the UCSF School of Medicine.
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/


RehabTrials.org

RehabTrials.org is a new web site created by the non-profit Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC) to promote, encourage, and support clinical trials in medical rehabilitation.
http://www.rehabtrials.org/


SUMSearch

SUMSearch is a single gateway that attempts to provide references to answer clinical questions around diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and therapy (plus physical findings adverse treatment effects and screening/prevention) by searching only high-quality sources. SUMSearch always searches:

  1. Merck Manual.
  2. MEDLINE for review articles and editorials that have full texts available.
  3. National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
  4. Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE).
  5. MEDLINE for original research.

Depending of the focus requested SUMSearch will search PubMed with the highest sensitivity filters developed by Haynes et al.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/management/sumsearch.htm


Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) Database

This resource, hosted by the Centre for Research Support in Wales, aims to support those working in primary care. The database has 8000 links covering resources at 28 different centres and allows both boolean searching (AND, OR, NOT) and truncation.
http://www.tripdatabase.com/


 

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