Comprehensive Evidence Reviews

• AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice
• AHRQ U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• Cochrane Library
  • Over 3,400 high-quality, systematic reviews
• Clinical Evidence
  • Over 3,000 reviews of interventions for common clinical conditions
• First Consult (accessed via MDConsult)
  • Evidence summaries, drug information, patient handouts and full text of 50+ books
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• PIER (Physician’s Information and Education Resources)
  • Modules on diseases feature recommendations backed with graded evidence
• UpToDate
  • Over 7,300 synthesized topics in 13 medical specialties

Evaluating Individual Articles

• ACP Journal Club
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Worksheets
• POEMS – (“patient oriented evidence that matters” – listed as InfoPOEMS from Journal of Family Practice)
• PubMed Clinical Queries
  • Provides the following specialized PubMed searches for clinicians: by Clinical Study Category, Systematic Reviews, Medical Genetics Searches
• User’s Guide to the Medical Literature

Meta-search engines

• Search over 100 EBM-oriented sites with Netting the Evidence