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Evidence-Based Resources

Resources
Guidelines

ACCESSSS Federated Search
Developed by McMaster University, ACCESSSS is an open access EBM search engine. Reviews over 120 journals; searchable database; provides ratings for each article; can set up email alerts; full-text is available through Pacific’s library only. Access notes: Free account is required.

ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey provides access to medical and surgical content including access to over several hundred e-books, e-journals, videos, images. This collection includes: emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine essentials, ophthalmology, pediatrics, and psychiatry.

DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)
Produced by the NHS (National Health Service) Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
Provides reviews of selected systematic reviews and includes discussion of the interventions and outcomes studied; the conclusions drawn; strengths and weaknesses of the review; and implications for practice. You can also search this database as part of the Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Multifile (Ovid) database.
PubMed Clinical Queries
Pre-set search filters to focus your search in 3 areas. (1) Clinical Study Categories: Select a Category (Etiology, Diagnosis, Therapy, Prognosis, or Clinical prediction guide) and a Scope (Broad or Narrow) to filter your search results. These options are available after you enter your search. (2) Systematic Reviews: Filters the search to include systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, and guidelines on your topic. (3) Medical Genetics: Filters a disease search for articles about genetic diagnosis, clinical description, management, counseling, molecular genetics, and genetic testing.

Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care. CDSR includes Cochrane Reviews (systematic reviews) and protocols for Cochrane Reviews as well as editorials and supplements.
TRIP - Turning Research into Practice (free site)
The TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice)
• Is made to quickly provide evidence for clinical decision making
• Pulls information from Cochrane, National Guideline Clearinghouse, and Medline
• Allows you to search evidence based resources together, and very quickly.
• Includes a PICO search tool to help you in quickly searching the literature.
• Trip has been online since 1997
• Also searches across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

AHRQ Guidelines and Measures
This resource, Guidelines and Measures, was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC). This information was previously available on guideline.gov and qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov, respectively. Both sites were taken down on July 16, 2018 because federal funding though AHRQ was no longer available to support them.
CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)
(Canada) The CMA Infobase is a public database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Maintained by the Canadian Medical Association, it currently includes over 1200 CPGs developed or endorsed by an authorative medical or health organization in Canada.
ECRI Guidelines Trust
The ECRI Guidelines Trust® is a publicly available online repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other healthcare providers and professionals, and members of the healthcare community with current clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care globally. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.

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ECRI has over 25 years of experience summarizing, appraising, and disseminating clinical practice guidelines. In addition to our curation of guidelines, ECRI develops products derived from current guidelines, which are available in Ovid's Evidence-based Health Collection. In this collection, EGT guideline content sits alongside systematic review and nursing content.
Guidelines via ClinicalKey
Over 4,000 guidelines in this database. Search all or browse by authoring organization or specialty.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse
(u.s.) Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
(England & Wales) NICE clinical guidelines are recommendations on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and Wales. They are based on the best available evidence and aim to improve the quality of healthcare.
United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
The USPSTF is an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention. They systematically review the evidence of effectiveness and develop recommendations, considered the "gold standard," for clinical preventive services. Foreground questions.