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• Clinical Evidence
  Synopses of what is known and not known about treatments for 228 conditions and the evidence that supports those treatments. Available from the BMJ Publishing Group.
• FirstConsult
  An evidence-based clinical information source for primary health care providers. It includes tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedure skills review. FirstConsult's differential diagnosis and medical condition files can be accessed on handheld devices via PocketConsult, a separate download available within the database.
• PIER (The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource)
  From the American College of Physicians,  PIER provides access to evidence-based guidelines for improving the quality of patient care.
• ACP Journal Club
  Fulltext of this journal from its premier issue in 1991 to the present. Published by The American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM.) Issues contain structured or "value added" abstracts of original articles and reviews selected from over 100 clinical medical journals.
• Clinical Guidelines
• National Guidelines Clearinghouse: US depository for clinical practice guidelines
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• Cochrane Library
  Provides access to the Database of Systematic Reviews (full text) and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, two excellent sources of evidence based healthcare reviews.
• MEDLINE
  Via OhioLINK.
• PubMed
  Medline directly from the National Library of Medicine
  • PubMed Clinical Queries
    Special section of PubMed that helps you do a focused search for evidence-based articles on therapy, diagnosis, etiology or prognosis questions.
  • Finding the Evidence on PubMed
    From Yale University, Harvey Cushing John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Copy and paste EBM filters for PubMed.

• AccessMedicine
  Over 40 full text basic science and clinical medicine textbooks including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Goodman & Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, and Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment. Also includes clinical care guidelines, drug information, Diagnosaursus for differential diagnosis, images, a study and review guide for the USMLE and much more.
• AccessEmergency Medicine
  Full text emergency medicine textbooks including Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures; Tintanelli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide; Emergency Ultrasound; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Emergency Orthopedics; and Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies. Also includes procedure descriptions (with PDA downloads), procedure videos, drug information, images, and much more.
• AccessSurgery
  Full text surgical textbooks including Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment, Maingot's Abdominal Operations, and Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations. Also includes procedure descriptions (with PDA downloads), procedure videos, board review test questions, drug information, a differential diagnosis tool (DDX), images, and much more.

• MDConsult
  Online textbooks useful for answering background questions; access to fulltext journal articles to answer foreground questions; numerous clinical guidelines.

• Users' Guide Interactive Learner
  This resource is a web version of the print American Medical Association's publication "Users guide to the medical literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice. The book is a new rendering of the original "Users guide..."series that appeared in JAMA articles from 1993 to 2000. See User's Guide to Evidence Based Practice to read these articles. 
  
  
• Journal Article Series
  • User's Guide to Evidence Based Practice
    Originally published in JAMA as User's Guide to the Medical Literature; available in fulltext from the Centre for Health Excellence at the University of Alberta, Canada.
  • How to Read a Paper - by Trish Greenhalgh; published in BMJ
    • Getting your bearings
    • How to read a paper: the MEDLINE database
    • Papers that report drug trials
    • Papers that report on diagnostic or screening tests
    • Papers that summarize other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
       
• Selected Websites
  • CEBM - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
    University of Toronto, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
    Oxford University; site contains learning materials and a collection of critically appraised topics (CATS)
  • "5S" Pyramid of Evidence Resources
    Webpage developed by Indiana University School of Medicine Libraries
  • Netting the Evidence
    From the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research; provides a comprehensive list of websites for and about evidence based healthcare
  • HealthWeb - Evidence Based Health Care
    Comprehensive list of evaluated resources designed specifically for physicians; maintained by librarians for the HealthWeb collaborative project
  • Evidence Based Medicine Resource Center
    Produced by the New York Academy of Medicine and the New York Chapter of American College of Physicians; comprehensive site