LibGuides: Medicine: EBM for General Practice: Key Resources

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Key Resources
S1 - Systems
S2 - Summaries
Evidence-based electronic textbooks and Guidelines
S3 - Synopses of syntheses
Evidence-based journal abstracts
S4 - Syntheses
Systematic reviews
S5 - Synopses of Studies
Evidence-based journal abstracts
S6 - Studies
Original journal articles
Other useful sites
More on EBP
Shared decision making
Information for patients

Key Resources

DynaMed This link opens in a new window
A clinical reference tool that represents the best available evidence drawn from medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. The content is written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis. New information is integrated into existing content daily.

BMJ Best Practice
A clinical decision support tool for health professionals that provides access to the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion in a single source. BMJ Best Practice includes differential diagnosis tables, treatment algorithms, videos of common clinical procedures, integrated evidence from Cochrane Clinical Answers, over 250 medical calculators and more.
Trip Database (open access)
"Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care."
Cochrane Library via Wiley
The Cochrane Library provides reliable information from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials. It includes six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Methodology Register; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; Health Technology Assessment Database; NHS Economic Evaluation Database; About The Cochrane Collaboration.
Patient.info (open access)
"Patient is one of the most trusted medical resources online, supplying evidence based information on a wide range of medical and health topics to patients and health professionals" This link is to the Medical Professionals part of the site.
NICE (open access)
UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence "is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health".
National Guideline Clearinghouse - USA (open access)
International in scope, "NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services." Note that this site will be closing down in July 2018.
BPAC (open access)
"Evidence-based, educational material for primary healthcare professionals in New Zealand...with free access to copies of our main publications; Best Practice Journal and Best Tests" The recently relaunched web site allows users to sign up for 'My BPAC' with customisable features.