For Doctors: Evidence-Based Health Care Resources

Evidence-Based Health Care Resources

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Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is compiled by clinicians, consumers and researchers from around the world. It is a resource to  support evidence-based health care decisions and is freely available to all Australians.

www3.interscience.wiley.com
Best Practice (Athens Logon)

Best Practice provides the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. It provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking.

bestpractice.bmj.com
MIMS Online (log in with Athens)

MIMS Online ? direct access to the MIMS world of medical knowledge and information databases straight from the web

www.mimsonline.com.au/authrev.aspx
Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing

Best Practice Information sheets, Systematic Reviews and Evidence Summaries are available using your Athens logon at Proquest.

www.joannabriggs.edu.au

Athens logon at Proquest

Evidence Australia

Evidence Australia is a search engine developed by the Royal Melbourne Hospital Library which focusses on evidence based sites which are all Australian

mh1.mh.org.au/library/eds/ea.htm
Netting the Evidence

A comprehensive, annotated guide to evidence-based healthcare resources on the internet from the Sheffield School of Health & related Research (SCHARR). Use their customised Google the Evidence search tool.

Google the Evidence

TRIP database (Turning Research Into Practice)

Free metasearch tool which queries over 100 quality evidence based sites at once. Groups results into full text articles, guidelines, PubMed's clinical queries etc. Offers updating service in clinical areas.

www.tripdatabase.com
Natural Medicines Database (log in with Athens)

Provides objective product information, Effectiveness Ratings, or potential interactions with drugs, for any natural product, disease or condition, or drug name.

naturaldatabase.therapeuticresearch.com.proxy1.athensams.net
Links to Australian and international clinical guidelines from the following services - National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS),  the New Zealand Guidelines Group, the US National Guideline Clearinghouse, and the UK National Electronic Library for Health (which has a guideline finder search).

National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS)

New Zealand Guidelines Group

National Guideline Clearinghouse

Health Information Resources

Health Systems Evidence - McMaster University (Canada)

Health Systems Evidence is a continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems.

www.healthsystemsevidence.org

 

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