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EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews)

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Full Description EBMR, a definitive resource in evidence based medicine, combines 4 of the most trusted EBM resources into one databases: Includes the following databases:
  • Entire Collection
  • Reviews of Topics
  • Article Reviews
    • ACP Journal Club (full-text): (From 1991) The editors of ACP Journal Club screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. Enhanced abstracts of the chosen articles are then written, including commentaries on the applicability of these studies to clinical practice.
  • Definitive Controlled Trials
    • Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials: This bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials was created as part of an international effort to create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. It consists of over 350,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care, and imposes quality control standards on included references to ensure that only reports of definite randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials are included.
    • Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) - NEW!
      Produced by the Cochrane group, CMR is a bibliography of more than 9,000 references to controlled trials in journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and reports, and other publications of methodologies used in health studies. Content is constantly being expanded upon via an extensive hand-searching program and the development of a series of search strategies in MEDLINE and EMBASE.
  • Interventions
    • Health Technology Assessments (HTA) - NEW!
      Also produced by the CRD, in collaboration with Sweden's INAHTA Secretariat, HTA brings together details on ongoing studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions
    • NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) - NEW!
      Produced by the CRD, this database provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare interventions, with more than 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.

    License Dates: 01-Apr-2007 to 31-Mar-2008

    Cufts enabled: Yes

    Ovid Linksolver enabled: Yes

    Additional Features of OVIDs EBMR

    • Link from EBMR to MEDLINE and Ovid full text journals
    • Link from the MEDLINE abstract of the evaluated article to the EBM review
    • Link from the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to the corresponding reviews of ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and DARE
    • Limit a search in MEDLINE to just those citations reviewed in the EBMR Collection

    Tutorials:

Platform Ovid
Titles Covered 360,000 records (bibliographic with full-text)
Dates Covered 1991 to present
Simultaneous Users 50 simultaneous users
Terms and Conditions Interlibrary Loan:
From section 4.1 of the licensing agreement: "Ovid’s distributor license with the content providers and publishers does not permit the use of ariel for transmitting E.B.M.R. (Wiley Publishers) or Medline (National Library of Medicine), and other additional content that may be acquired by the eHLBC group from Ovid in the future."

Course Packs and Electronic Reserve:
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