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Databases to Search for EBM Information

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Databases

Databases – Articles on How-to-Search – Tutorials for Improving Searching Skills

 

Bandolier

 

Cochrane Collaboration

 

DUETs - Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments

 

eMedicine

 

Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT)

 

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

 

PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database

 

PubMed

 

TRIP 

 

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Articles on how-to-search for EBM

Databases – Articles on How-to-Search – Tutorials for Improving Searching Skills

  

Doig GS, Simpson F.

Efficient literature searching: a core skill for the practice of evidence-based medicine. Intensive Care Med. 2003 Dec;29(12):2119-27.

 

Gillespie LD, Gillespie WJ.

Finding current evidence: search strategies and common databases. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2003 Aug; (413): 133-45.

 

Haynes RB, Wilczynski NL.

Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of diagnosis from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ. 2004 May 1; 328(7477): 1040.

 

Liu JH.

Guides to an efficient search for the best evidence. Semin Reprod Med. 2003 Feb; 21(1) : 5-8. 

 

Onady GM, Raslich MA.

Evidence-based medicine: searching literature and databases for clinical evidence (search tools). Pediatr Rev. 2004 Oct; 25(10): 358-63. 

 

Weinfeld JM, Finkelstein K.

How to answer your clinical questions more efficiently. Fam Pract Manag. 2005 Jul-Aug; 12(7): 37-41.  


Tutorials for Improving Searching Skill 

Databases – Articles on How-to-Search – Tutorials for Improving Searching Skills

 

Searching the Medical Literature for the Best Evidence (UNC-CH)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBM_searching/pages/index.htm

 

Using PubMed to Find Evidence-Based Medicine Articles (UNC-CH)   http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/EBMPubMed.cfm



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