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Critical Appraisal Literature
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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