Evidence-Based Searching
Finding the Best External Evidence
PubMed®’s “Clinical Queries” page provides links to specialized searches:
Search by Clinical Study Category allows you to focus your search on:
- etiology,
- diagnosis,
- therapy, or
- prognosis
And you can also specify two levels of retrieval:
- narrow, specific search or
- broad, sensitive search
Find Systematic Reviews allows you to
restrict retrieval to the following group of publication types:
- systematic reviews
- meta-analyses
- reviews of clinical trials
- evidence-based medicine
- consensus development conferences
- guidelines
Medical Genetics Searches limits retrieval
to various topics in medical genetics.
Background
- Haynes, RB, et. Al. Developing optimal search strategies
for detecting clinically sound studies in MEDLINE. Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1994
Nov-Dec. 1(6): 447-58.
- Hunt, DL and McKibbon, KA,
Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews, Annals of
Internal Medicine, 126(7), 1 April 1997: 532-8.
- Sackett DL, Rosenberg WC, et. al. Evidence based
medicine: what it is and what it isn’t. (Chapter in The
Nation’s Health, Philip R Lee and Carroll L.
Estes, ed., 5th
ed., Jones and Bartlett, 1997, p. 395.
Other Sources to Find Good Clinical Evidence
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews on the
Web. The Cochrane Collaboration studies the
research on selected topics and reports their conclusions in
the form of systematic reviews searchable here. Accessible
to UNM IP addresses only on the Databases page.
- There are many fine web sites which give access to
evidence-based material. Try these when you have a chance:
- BestBETs - Emergency Medicine focus.
-
EBM Resources from the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine
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AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
-
Practice Oriented Evidence that Matters from the Journal of Family
Practice
-
Golden Hour Medical Information from the
Department of Family Health Care, Haifa, Israel
-
nettingtheevidence - an encyclopedic list of EBM
resources from Sheffield, England
-
Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) - derived
from several EBM sources
- BestBETs - Emergency Medicine focus.
- EBM Resources from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Practice Oriented Evidence that Matters from the Journal of Family Practice
- Golden Hour Medical Information from the Department of Family Health Care, Haifa, Israel
- nettingtheevidence - an encyclopedic list of EBM resources from Sheffield, England
- Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) - derived from several EBM sources