Library of a range of electronic health resources intended to act as a source of authoritative evidence and best practice to support health care in the NHS http://www.library.nhs.uk/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT Produced by the National Library of Medicine,US The database includes extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. It also includes a drug database and links to clinical trials. http://www.medlineplus.gov/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT The TRIP database searches over 55 sites of high-quality medical information and gives you direct links to the largest collections of evidence-based material on the web as well as articles from premiere online journals such as BMJ, JAMA, and NEJM. http://www.tripdatabase.com./ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT BMJ Clinical Evidence is one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT The Cochrane Library is a regularly updated electronic library designed to provide the evidence needed for healthcare decision making. See www.cochrane.org for information about access to the Library. The Cochrane Library contains the following databases: * The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews * The York Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) * The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register * The Cochrane Review Methodology Database http://www.carg.cochrane.org/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT MEDLINE is a major source of the primary literature (the original reports of research) in medicine. However, the process of searching, synthesizing, and evaluating the reports of original research can be daunting and time intensive. http://medline.cos.com/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT is a database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). http://www.nrr.nhs.uk/default.htm 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT 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://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT DARE – (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) contains over 4000 abstracts of quality assessed and critically appraised systematic reviews. The database focuses on the effects of interventions used in health and social care produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York. NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) contains over 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. The HTA database brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world. http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/Home.aspx 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT Physicians need rapid access to the best current evidence on a wide range of clinical topics. But where to find it? Textbooks are frequently out-of-date, and we don't have the time to perform literature reviews while the patient is waiting. BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. http://www.bestbets.org/ 28 Mar 2008 09:09:13 GMT