Primary Health Care
Searching for Synthesised Evidence
Cochrane Library
| What is it? | The Cochrane Library consists of a collection of evidence based medicine databases that contain different types of high-quality evidence to inform healthcare decision making. It includes the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, which are the gold standard of medical literature. |
| Fulltext availability: | Cochrane systematic reviews are available for free. |
| Searching tips: | Advanced search lets you search specific fields, or look at types of studies, e.g. systematic reviews. |
Cochrane Clinical Answers
| What is it? | Cochrane Clinical Answers are truncated summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews, designed to inform clinical descion making. Each summary is in the form of a clinical question, with a short answer and the opportunity to “drill down” to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews. |
Summary example:
Cochrane advanced search