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Critical Appraisal Literature


  • ACP Journal Club
    Current issues online; back issues in Kellogg Library (Coverage expanded in 2000 to areas outside internal medicine) As of May 2008, ACP Journal Club ceased being published as a separate journal. Instead of being a bimonthly stand-alone journal, ACP Journal Club is now a monthly feature of Annals of Internal Medicine.
  • Academic Detailing Service (NS)
    An initiative funded by the N. S. Department of Health and managed by Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education Division.
  • ATTRACT
    UK service that provides rapid, evidence-based answers to clinical questions.
  • Bandolier: Evidence-Based Health Care
    (produced monthly in Oxford for the National Health Service - Internet access is available for issues back to 1994)
  • BestBETs
    BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
  • Clinical Evidence
    Clincal Evidence is a compendium of the best available research findings on common and important clinical questions, updated and expanded every six months.
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
    Current issues online; back issues in Kellogg Library. Published jointly by BMJ Publishing Group and American College of Physicians, covers areas of primary health care beyond the scope of ACP Journal Club.
  • Essential Evidence PLUS (formerly called InfoPOEMs) (Subscription required) (Available with CMA membership)
    POEM stands for Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters. POEMs have to meet three criteria: they address a question that we face as physicians they measure outcomes that we and our patients care about: symptoms, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality. they have the potential to change the way we practice (Subscription based)
  • Informed
    (A quarterly from ICES that puts health services information and clinical research together in a clear and concise format to give practicing physicians material that is directly relevant to their practice. Selected full text on the Web.)
  • Journal Watch Online
    (Twice-weekly online summaries of new medical research. Published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers and owners of The New England Journal of Medicine. Subscription only.)
  • Just the Berries
    Originates from St. Martha's Regional Hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and presents critical points of topics commonly encountered in family practice.
  • Medical Letter (By subscr.)
    (Its newsletters, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter, publish critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs. Note: The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is held in print at the Kellogg Library)
  • OT Seeker
    Abstracts of critically appraised systematic reviews and RCT's relevant to occupational therapy
  • PEDro
    Physiotherapy Evidence Database from the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)
  • PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club
  • Critically Appraised Topics in Rehabilitation Therapy (CATS)
    Brief summaries of critically appraised clinical rehabilitation topics
  • RxFiles
    An Academic Detailing Program seeks to promote optimal drug therapy, providing drug information and educational to Saskatchewan Physicians & other Health Care Professionals (By subscription)
  • Therapeutics Initiative
    Established in 1994 by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in cooperation with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia to provide physicians and pharmacists with up to date, evidence based, practical information on rational drug therapy.