Interesting question, and an approach that is attractive to me - because
I use it. ;-)
These links are great, Dean.
I use...
http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/conditions/index.jsp (what can you
say - just brilliant.)
http://www.infopoems.com/ (includes Cochrane summaries, and a host of
useful decision rules. A month's free trail is available. The drawback
for a UK located clinicain is its US orientation, but still a fine
product)
http://www.drcompanion.com/ (Clinical Evidence summaries, Cochrane
summaries, NICE summaries, British National Formulary and a ton of other
less useful [to me] resources)
http://www.prodigy.nhs.uk/ (underused and largely undervalued - but
fills in some gaps in the clinical topics covered by the above
resources)
After that it's the 'Ivy League' journals, and after that still a place
for Medline searching - the askmedline
http://askmedline.nlm.nih.gov/ask/ask.php facility seems to be becoming
valued by non-MESH gurus and I access it wirelessly using a Blackberry.
I'd definitely say factor in the context of the local health care system
and the summaries from sources viewed locally as 'trusted' into your
thinking, Margaret. For example, you'd probably want to include your
Aussie National Prescribing Service outputs, especially if this was
aimed at generalists? Link posted for the group - http://www.nps.org.au/
Best Wishes
Neal
Neal Maskrey. Medical Director, National Prescribing Centre, 70 Pembroke
Place, Liverpool L69 3GF. Tel: 0151 794 8135. e-mail:
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Subject: Re: Databases of synthesised evidence
Alison et al,
I maintain a comprehensive list of EBM tools:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/sourcesofevidence.pdf
I did "attempt" to do an informal survey of the top 20 EBM sources:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/EBMJan20_06.pdf
These lists include databases beyond the synthesized tools. What I've
found is that synthesis is entering the main medical media as well as
the specialized databases and tools. regards, Dean
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On Tue, 16 May 2006, Alison Margaret Hutchinson wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am writing to seek your opinions. My question is: if you were to
> provide clinicians with electronic access in the clinical setting to
> about 6 searchable databases of 'synthesised' evidence, which
> databases, in addition to Cochrane, would you recommend?
>
> Your views will be very much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alison
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