Dear Kumara,
Further to Dean's email, another source of pre-appraised evidence based
material is the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) which
contains abstracts of quality assessed systematic review on the effects of
healthcare interventions.
This is available to use, free of charge at: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
Cheers,
Kate
Kate Light
Information Specialist
CRD
University of York
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-----Original Message-----
From: Evidence based health (EBH)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dean Giustini
Sent: 08 September 2009 02:59
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Subject: Re: Pre-appraised evidence resources
From a health librarian's perspective, "appraised" information is a critical
evaluation of relevant and quality for topics in biomedicine. In a strict
sense of "appraised" in clinical medicine, this term means that a topic has
been put through a process of evaluation that can lead to tertiary
summmarized sources of information; one word we use for these tools is
"point of care":
Point of Care Decision Making Tools
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Point_of_care_decision-making_tools_-_O
verview
Dean
-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon Sep 07 18:48:40 PDT 2009
> From: "Kumara Mendis" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Pre-appraised evidence resources
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Dear Colleagues
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> What is a pre-appraised evidence-based resource?
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> Has there been a 'definition'
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> Has someone categorized or ranked the commonly known pre-appraised
> evidence resources?
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> Can we differentiate between a good text-book of medicine that is
> evidence-based (to a extent that is possible with current electronic
> versions) and a pre-appraised evidence resources?
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> Any clarifications or articles re the above?
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> Kumara
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