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Need EBP On A Specific Topic?
The Cochrane Collaboration (can subscribe online for full text)
Cochrane Collaboration, centered in UK with contributing collaborators world wide.
Simple - Excellent. Click Cochrane library and enter search term, e.g., dementia produced 77 abstracts of cochrane reviews
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), American Association of Health Plans, American Medical Association
Excellent. Able to search by topic, e.g., dementia term revealed 89 guidelines. This site includes links to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Click research findings and you can search by nine broad health topics for specific guidelines.
The Joanna Briggs Institute
Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery, an International Research Collaboration Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide University and Centers in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong
Excellent for clinicians. Click evidence libraries and retrieve "best practice informational sheets for health professionals", e.g., music as an intervention for hospitals. Systematic reviews, summaries, and protocols by topic are easily reviewed.
NLM Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. Use search term "systematic reviews" and then select topics.
Trip Database
Turning Research Into Practice, extensive interdisciplinary database. Search by clinical topic and systematic reviews and summaries are obtained, e.g., dementia produced 17 guidelines (links).
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