Search sites
ACCESSSS (http://plus.mcmaster.ca/ACCESSSS)
ACCESSSS is a service to help provide current best evidence for clinical decisions, conducting literature searches simultaneously in several different evidence-based information services (online evidence-based texts, and pre-appraised journal publications), and providing email alerts to newly published evidence in the user’s chosen area(s) of training or interest.
Epistemonikos (http://www.epistemonikos.org/)
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of research evidence and knowledge translation products that are usually referred as "evidence", according to the meaning given in Evidence-Based Health Care. It includes systematic reviews, overviews of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.
Trip Database (http://www.tripdatabase.com/)
A clinical search engine designed to query reviews of primary literature, guidelines, eTextbooks, and patient information to allow clinicians to answer clinical question. Evidence level citation and updates depend on the sources queried by TRIP.
Evidence collections
BMJ Best Practice (http://bestpractice.bmj.com) *Subscription required, free trial available
BMJ Best Practice is designed to provide up to date research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion in a step-by-step approach that covers prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis – a “second opinion” in an instant, with a patient-focused approach.
Cochrane Library (http://www.cochranelibrary.com/) *Subscription for full access, abstracts free.
The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels
Essential Evidence Plus (http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/) *Subscription required.
A searchable database of POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters), with direct feeds from Cochrane, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and 5-minute clinical consult (5MCC). Evidence levels cited in text. Updated three times a year.
The NNT (http://www.thennt.com/)
Ratings of therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/)
The USPSTF conducts scientific evidence reviews of a broad range of clinical preventive health care services (such as screening, counseling, and preventive medications) and develops recommendations for primary care clinicians and health systems. These recommendations are published in the form of "Recommendation Statements."
Evidence Syntheses
DynaMed (http://www.dynamed.com/) *Subscription required.
Dynamed provides outline-based reviews of clinical topics. An evidence-based protocol is used to guide journal monitoring by topic authors. Peer reviewed, evidence levels cited in the text. Continuously updated.
Up to Date (http://www.uptodate.com/index) *Subscription required.
A searchable database of clinical topics with links to Medline abstracts with clinician authors and peer review. Updated every four months.