Guides: Evidence-Based Practice: Search

Searching for the Evidence

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Consists of the latest, up-to-date full-text of all reviews and protocols prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international review group dedicated to preparing and maintaining evidenced-based materials on clinical topics.

PubMed (Medline)
The National Library of Medicine's interface to Medlline, the premier biomedical database searchable from 1947 to the present.
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It provides coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
Rational Clinical Exam (series from JAMA)
Articles focus on diagnosis through physical examination. This series now includes over 40 articles studying the validity of individual components of the physical examination.
TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database
The TRIP Database is a meta-search engine that searches across 61 EBM sites of high-quality medical information, including online journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM.

CATmaker
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford, UK). CATmaker is a computer-assisted critical appraisal tool. The full version (3MB, PC) is now free. It provides guided appraisal and calculations for therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, etc

Essential Evidence Plus This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based, point-of-care clinical decision support system that gives you access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries

PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's interface to Medline, the premier biomedical database

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Consists of the latest, up-to-date full-text of all reviews and protocols prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international review group dedicated to preparing and maintaining evidenced-based materials on clinical topics.