Selected articles reporting original studies and systematic reviews for physicians attempting to keep pace with advances in internal medicine. These articles are summarised in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.

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Provides rapid, evidence based summaries to clinical queries. Clinicians can send in a query & ATTRACT will search the evidence, appraise and summarise onto a side of A4 and then fax it back to the clinician - within 6 hours if necessary.

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This electronic journal provides advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals and consumer, using evidence-based medicine techniques. It distills information from reviews of trials and makes it comprehensible.

Ejournal service  

Best in MH: a clinical answers service from the Instituteof Psychiatry. It appraises and summarises research evidence about mental healthcare interventions. This service no longer accepts new questions, but the answers database is still available to all.

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Best Evidence Topics were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.

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Trial access to BMJ Case Reports has now ended.

Ejournal service  

Citations from 110 clinical journals are assessed for quality and relevance and added to a searchable database to support evidence-based clinical decisions. Free registration required.

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Cancer research UK clinical trials database

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The databases examined include the NCRN (National Cancer Research Network), Cancer Research UK and the EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer). Trials run by the pharmaceutical industry are also included.

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CAHE is a forum for undertaking and disseminating evidence-based research in allied health locally, nationally and internationally. CAHE includes physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy and medical radiation as well as complementary and alternative therapies

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The overall aim of the Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health is to increase the provision of effective and efficient child health care through an educational programme for health professionals and includes a database of training materials, containing
scenarios, references and notes.

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The Centre for Evidence Based Dentistry is an independent body whose aim is to promote evidence based dentistry world-wide.

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The Centre has been established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources, including the CAT bank

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A range of resources to promote and support the teaching and practice of evidence-based mental healthcare. Includes information concerning the research activities of the CEBMH and workshops on practicing and teaching EBMH.

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Clinical Evidence (BMJ)

Produced by the BMJ publishing group, the international source of the best available evidence for effective health care. Promotes informed decision making by summarising what's known - and not known - about more than 200 medical conditions and over 2000 treatments.

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Clinical Knowledge Summaries (incorporating PRODIGY)

Clinical Knowledge Summaries offers advice on the management of conditions and symptoms commonly seen in primary care. It is intended to support clinicians and their patients in making joint decisions in the management of the patient's health.

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Cochrane Library

Access to the Cochrane Library is free to NHS staff, patients and the public in England.

Description: incorporates over six key resources in the field of evidence based practice, including the CDSR, DARE, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), the NHS ...

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A 'virtual library' of links to full text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice.

Database  

CASP is a programme within Learning & Development at the NHS Public Health Resource Unit. CASP helps to develop an evidence-based approach in health and social care, with workshops and resources in finding, appraising and acting on research evidence.

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Current Controlled Trials is published by BioMed Central. It consists of two databases: the ISRCTN Register – a database of randomised controlled trials with an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number and the mRCT - metaRegister of Controlled Trials - an International database ...

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king's subscription to this database has ended.

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This resource comprises two sections: Guides provide bullet-point recommendations on the diagnosis and management of a range of on-call conditions, with information on the levels of evidence supporting them.
CATS (Critically Appraised Topics) summarise the evidence from a medical journal paper.

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HILO

HILO is your gateway to high-quality health information online compiled by the London Health Libraries network for NHS staff. It provides a single access point for both national and London resources. From here you can search databases, browse and download ejournals and ebooks, find resources for ...

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A listing of search filters designed to identify research by specific study design or by topic or by some other feature of the research question.

Database  

This service is provided by the IFPMA, on behalf of its Member Companies and Associations. The portal has been designed as a single entry allowing you to search for comprehensive information on on-going clinical trials (registry) or results of completed trials (database) conducted by the innovative ...

Database  

The ISRCTN is a simple numeric system for the unique identification of randomised controlled trials worldwide. The ISRCTN Register also accepts registration of other forms of studies designed to assess the efficacy of health-care interventions.

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This resource aims to help people understand fair tests of treatments in health care by illustrating how fair tests have developed over the centuries.

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Map of Medicine

The Map of Medicine is an online knowledge resource that visually organises the latest medical research evidence and best patient practice guidelines.

Reference tool  

The mRCT is a major international searchable database of ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare, built by combining registers held by public, charitable and commercial sponsors of trials. The mRCT also contains some completed trials

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The CTU aims to strengthen and expand the evidence base for health care nationally and internationally. The unit coordinates high-quality trials in cancer and HIV and undertakes research rheumatoid arthritis, respiratory disorders, infectious diseases, and haematological disease.

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Netting the Evidence provides support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals, as well as a listing of research methodology search filters.

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NHS Evidence

Built around a powerful search engine, provides access to the best evidence based resources, especially good for guidelines and reviews. It also provides links to other NHS resources, such as healthcare databases, electronic journals and Specialist Collections.

Subject gateway  

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Ebooks Full Collection

Complete colllection of ebooks published by the Royal Society of Chemistry 1968-2011.

Ebook provider  

The database is intended to serve an internal function for the Social Work Leadership Institute, and affiliated partners. That function is to provide easy access to empirical studies of social work intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness with older adults. This data provides an empirical ...

Database  

SUMSearch selects the best resources for your question, formats your question for each resource, and makes additional searches based on results.

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Transplant Library (Ovid)

The Transplant Library is the bibliographic database of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET), the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

The Transplant Library contains evidence-based information on all aspects of ...

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TRIP Plus Database

Turning Research into Practice provides a single search interface to a large number of web resources, which contain high quality evidence for answering clinical questions, including journals, synopses, online textbooks and systematic reviews.

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The purpose of the system is to allow users to search for studies within the UKCRN Portfolio.
The UKCRN Portfolio comprises four smaller portfolios of studies belonging to the four nations of the United Kingdom.

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This search portal provides access to a central database containing the trial registration datasets provided by Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN

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