Evidence Based Medicine Reviews

*Core Resource* 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
  • Cochrane, DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE
• Reviews of Topics
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews:Consists of groups of experts in over 40 clinical specialties who authoritatively review hundreds of studies on topics in their specialty.
  • The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE): Provides access to selected systematic reviews on the effectiveness of clinical interventions and policies from databases such as MEDLINE and through manual review of the primary literature.
• 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)
    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)
    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)
    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.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews is available through e-HLbc's core suite. All full and affiliate members have access to this resource and 50 simultaneous users are shared consortium wide.