Evidence-Based Medicine
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16. <strong>Evidence</strong>-based <strong>Medicine</strong> Toolkit: Heneghan C and Badenoch D. 2nd<br />
Ed. BMJ Books & Blackwell Publishing London 2006.<br />
B- Reappraised literature [Peer-reviewed publications<br />
which retrieve and appraise articles from prominent<br />
medical journals through rigorous criteria:<br />
• The American College of Physicians Journal Club and <strong>Evidence</strong> <strong>Based</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong>, a joint venture between ACP and BMJ.<br />
Published six times a year, ACP Journal Club is the critically acclaimed<br />
source to find the most important articles among the thousands<br />
published each year in peer-reviewed journals. ACP Journal Club›s<br />
distinctive format facilitates rapid assessment of each study›s validity<br />
and relevance to your clinical practice.<br />
http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc /jcmenu.hun.<br />
• <strong>Evidence</strong>-<strong>Based</strong> Nursing.<br />
http://ebn.bmjjournals.com/<br />
• Cochrane Collaboration- An international network of more than 4000<br />
scientists and clinical epidemiologists dedicated to «preparing,<br />
maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of health care.»<br />
Cochrane Centers exist in Europe and North America, and have been<br />
founded on the principle that summary data in the form of scientifically<br />
conducted review articles (systematic overviews) represent the most<br />
efficient means by which clinicians can quickly access relevant<br />
information.<br />
The Cochrane Library Updated quarterly. It is formed of several separate<br />
databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews<br />
(CDSR), which contains the full text of specially compiled systematic<br />
reviews covering many branches of health care. It also contains the<br />
protocols and progress reports of systematic reviews that are currently<br />
being undertaken; The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness<br />
(DARE) which contains structured abstracts of good quality systematic<br />
reviews already published elsewhere; The Cochrane Controlled Trials<br />
Register (CCTR) which contains the bibliographic details and MEDLINE<br />
abstracts of about two orders of magnitude. A search of the Cochrane<br />
Library searches all the databases, so search results will not all be<br />
systematic reviews. CDSR and DARE form part of EBMR on Ovid Biomed<br />
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