Resources for Getting Evidence into Practice

Sytematic Reviews, MetaSyntheses and MetaAnalyses - For-A-Fee Access

The Cochrane Collaboration/The Cochrane Library - Database of Systematic Reviews and DARE, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.
Full-text access limited to subscribers or those with country-wide access. Click Cochrane Reviews on the left-side to browse free systematic review summaries.

According to their website, "The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials - all the current evidence in one single environment."

Also, "DARE is the only database to contain abstracts of systematic reviews that have been quality-assessed. Each abstract includes a summary of the review together with a critical commentary about the overall quality. The database is a key resource for busy decision makers and can be used for answering questions about the effects of specific interventions, whether such questions arise from practice or when making policy. DARE covers a broad range of health related interventions and includes over 3000 abstracts of reviews in fields as diverse as diagnostic tests, public health, health promotion, pharmacology, surgery, psychology and the organization and delivery of health care."

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InfoPoems -
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According to their website, "POEM stands for Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters. POEMs have to meet three criteria; they address a question that we face as clinicians, they measure outcomes that we and our patients care about: symptoms, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality, they have the potential to change the way we practice."


The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) - Systematic Review Database
Full-text access limited to subscribers. Click on EBP Resources and Services, then JBI Systematic Review Database.

According to their website, "Our role is to identify feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective health care practices and health care outcomes by facilitating international collaboration between collaborating centres, groups and expert researchers, clinicians and members of the institute through; Developing methods to appraise and synthesise evidence, conducting systematic reviews and analyses of the research literature (evidence translation); Globally disseminating information in diverse formats to inform health systems, health professionals and consumers (evidence transfer); Facilitating the effective implementation of evidence and the evaluation of its impact on health care practice (evidence utilisation); Contributing to clinical cost effective health care through the promotion of evidence based health care practice (evidence utilisation)."

Up-To-Date -
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According to their website, "UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to clinicians on the Web, desktop, and PDA. UpToDate is designed to get clinicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point-of-care. Our topics are written exclusively for UpToDate by clinicians for clinicians - more than 3,300 clinicians serve as authors. Our content is comprehensive yet concise and it's fully referenced. It goes through an extensive peer review process to ensure that the information and recommendations you access from our service are accurate and reliable."