Primary and Secondary Sources of Medical Literature
Please contact a Practice Enhancement Associate if you are unable to access any of the following databases.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), available free through the Internet. PubMed and Internet Grateful Med are user-friendly sites. Clinical Queries can be used in PubMed as search filters, based on the work of Haynes RB et al. Four categories are provided, and the emphasis may be more sensitive (i.e., most relevant articles but probably some less relevant ones) or more specific (i.e., mostly relevant articles but probably omitting a few).
MEDLINE is also available at the Bird Library Site
Select OVID to begin.
These databases are also available through OVID.
All EBM Reviews
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 Effects (DARE).
• ACP Journal Club (ACP)
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH)
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
CINAHL
Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, available online and in book form; includes articles dealing with nursing and allied fields including social services, occupational therapy, and health education.
Secondary sources: Collections of articles selected and critically appraised by an editor or expert.
Cochrane Library
An electronic publication and available over the Internet; systematic reviews of more than 70 000 controlled trials.
ACP Journal Club
Periodical published by the American College of Physicians, also available on the Internet.
Evidence-Based Medicine
Periodical published by the BMJ Publishing Group and the American College of Physicians—American Society of Internal Medicine, also available on the Internet.
Best Evidence
CD-ROM containing articles from ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine; contains excellent comments by expert reviewers.
Journal of Family Practice
Features evidence-based medicine called Poems: Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters.
TRIP (Translating Research into Practice)
TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet. It started with 1,100 links recorded from 15 sources and since then it has grown rapidly in both coverage and usability.
National Guidelines Clearing House
U.S. Clinical Preventive Services Table of Contents (USPSTF) Guidelines
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Guidelines and evidence Reports
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. The content is 'tertiary' publishing, distilling the information from (secondary) reviews of (primary) trials and making it comprehensible.
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Effective Health Care
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NCG)
DynaMed
DynaMed is designed to provide the most useful information at the point of care for health care professionals. Usefulness requires a balance of validity, relevance, convenience and affordability.
Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence aims to cover common or important clinical conditions seen in primary and hospital care. To decide which conditions to cover we review national data on consultation rates, morbidity and mortality, we take account of national priorities for health care such as those outlined in the UK National Service Frameworks and in the US Institute of Medicine reports, and we take advice from generalist clinicians and patient groups.
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