Evidence Summaries
- NICE (National Institute for Healthcare and Excellence)Access to authoritative clinical evidence and practice. Includes Clinical Knowledge Summaries, NICE Pathways, guides, standard indicators and NHS Evidence.
Practice Guidelines
- CPG InfobasePublic database of practice guidelines maintained by the Canadian Medical Association and endorsed in Canada by national, provincial, or territorial medical/health organizations or government agencies.
- NICE Evidence SearchA collection based on the guidelines produced by NICE and other national agencies. The main focus is on guidelines produced in the UK, but selected guidelines from other countries are included.
Selected Nursing Practice Guidelines
- Registered Nurses' Association of OntarioHas guidelines covering five broad clinical areas: Gerontology, Primary Health Care, Home Health Care, Mental Health Care and Emergency Care – some of these are available in French.
Selected Associations with Guidelines
Systematic Reviews
- Cochrane LibraryThe Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Health care in the 21st century relies not only on individual medical skills, but also on the best information on the effectiveness of each intervention being accessible to practitioners, patients and policy makers. This approach is sometimes known as "evidence-based medicine". The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The Cochrane Library is a collection of seven separate databases. Five of these provide coverage of evidence-based medicine, and the other two provide information on research methodology.
- Knowledge Translation Evidence-Based Medicine ToolboxFormerly KT Clearinghouse. Contains resources including Critical Appraisal Worksheets, Clinical Questions, Educational Prescriptions, Self-Evaluations, Pocket Cards, EBM Calculators, and more.
Meta-Search Engines
- TRIP DatabaseFrom the UK, this database is designed to find and use high quality clinical research evidence.
- ACCESSS Smart SearchFrom McMaster Plus, this database is designed to find the best evidence-based answer to clinical questions by simultaneously searching the leading evidence-driven medical publications and high quality clinical literature.
- EpistemonikosLists systematic reviews in different health topics.
Natural Medicine
- Natural MedicinesFormerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive.
Clinical information on over 1,000 individual natural ingredients. An evidence-based resource providing a comprehensive listing of natural medicine brand name product ingredients and encyclopedic entries with extensive references. Cited references are linked to PubMed abstracts when available.
Other Databases
- BMJ Journals Online
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A collection of 24 British Medical Association (BMA) electronic journals covering a broad range of medical topics. Includes 22 titles from the BMJ Journals Online Collection and open access BMJ and Clinical Evidence.
Pharmacy Related Information
- CPS (formerly RxTx)Formerly e-Therapeutics, then RxTx. This resource integrates content from CPhA's Therapeutic Choices and e-CPS, and is augmented by range of external references to create a centralized resource for drug therapy information. Content is updated and reviewed continually. It is augmented by a wide and continuously growing range of external references to create a centralized drug resource for drug therapy information.
- Drug Product DatabaseProduct specific information on drugs approved for use in Canada
- RxFilesAn app is available for iPhone or iPad through iTunes ($45/year).
- medSaskExcellent source of relevant and timely information related to prescription therapy.
- Saskatchewan Drug FormularyOnline list of drugs covered by the Drug Plan, information and forms, plus downloadable Formulary information.
Articles: Point of Care Resources compared
Addison, J., Whitcombe, J., & William Glover, S. (2013). How doctors make use of online, point-of-care clinical decision support systems: A case study of UpToDate. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 30(1), 13-22. doi:10.1111/hir.12002
Amber, K. T., Dhiman, G., & Goodman, K. W. (2014). Conflict of interest in online point-of-care clinical support websites. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(8), 578-580. doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101625
Chan, R., & Stieda, V. (2011). Evaluation of three point-of-care healthcare databases: BMJ point-of-care, clin-eguide and nursing reference centre. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 28(1), 50-58. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00920.x
Shurtz, S., & Foster, M. J. (2011). Developing and using a rubric for evaluating evidence-based medicine point-of-care tools. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 99(3), 247-254. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.012
Banzi, R., Cinquini, M., Liberati, A., Moschetti, I., Pecoraro, V., Tagliabue, L., & Moja, L. (2011). Speed of updating online evidence based point of care summaries: Prospective cohort analysis. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 343(7827), d5856. doi:10.1136/bmj.d5856
Vernooij, R. W. M., Sanabria, A. J., Solà, I., Alonso-Coello, P., & Martínez García, L. (2013; 2014). Guidance for updating clinical practice guidelines: A systematic review of methodological handbooks. Implementation Science : IS, 9(1), 3-3. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-9-3