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Healthcare Information Sources: Short List
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Information
Other Sources
Content Provider
ACP Journal Club
Systematic Reviews
Other Sources
Other Sources
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ)
Canadian Agency for Drugs &
Technology in Health (CADTH)
Cochrane Collaboration
(subscription)
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of
Effects (DARE)
Dynamed®
FDA
Other Sources
Other Sources
Other Sources
Other Sources
Other Sources
Google and GoogleHealth
Informed Health Online
MEDLINEplus
MedScape
Pubcrawler
Primary Studies, Secondary
Studies, Secondary Sources,
Other Information
Other Sources
PubMed
Systematic Reviews
Systematic Reviews
Systematic Reviews
Systematic Reviews
Other Sources
www.delfini.org
TRIP Database (Turning Research
Into Practice)
United States Preventive Services
Taskforce (USPSTF)
UpToDate®
Comments
Selected studies with commentaries (many without critical
appraisal)
Evidence-based Practice Center reports and other EB information
Evidence-based technology and drug class assessments
Database of Systematic Reviews (RCTs)
Review of Systematic Reviews
Frequently updated source of graded studies; useful first pass
For new drugs and devices or if you want information regarding
pivotal trials. Look at Medical Reviews and Statistical Reviews
(search “fda medical review [drug]” in Google or go to FDA site
and search “medical review [drug]”.
Good for definitions, background reading
Information for patients from Cochrane
Information for patients from NLM about medications, conditions
Sometimes a means for getting full text of articles
“It goes to the library. You to go to the pub.” Free service to scan
NLM daily by topic
Database of Systematic Reviews, RCTs, observational studies,
guidelines, pharmacoeconomics
For evidence reviews and guidelines.
Evidence-based review of clinical preventive services
Popular site for clinicians. Contains up-to-date but not criticallyappraised information about what can be used, but may result in
overuse. Good for background reading.
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