EBM Database

The Meharry Medical College Library provides access to a combination of subscribed and publicly available electronic databases and journals.

  • UpToDate Clinical Reference – (Subscribed resource) UpToDate® is an evidence-based knowledge system authored by physicians to help clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. All UpToDate content is written and edited by a global community of physicians, world-renowned experts in their specialties. Supported by a staff of in-house physician editors, these authors follow a rigorous editorial process, continually reviewing the content to ensure it is of the highest quality and based on the latest evidence.
  • DXplain – DXplain is a decision support system that provides ranked lists of disease diagnosis based upon patient signs, symptoms and laboratory values entered by the healthcare professional. The DXplain knowledgebase contains over 5,000 clinical findings associated with more than 2,400 diseases.
  • Medscape Reference – (Free resource) Medscape Reference is a free clinical resource. The Medscape Reference includes: eMedicine articles; free registration; free mobile app; Free CME. Medscape Reference provides free, comprehensive, and current medical condition, surgery, procedure, and drug articles with presentation, diagnosis, treatment …
  • EBM Reviews – ACP Journal Club – (Subscribed resource) ACP Journal Club contains enhanced abstracts of methodologically sound and clinically relevant research studies published in major clinical journals, along with commentary of the applicability of each study’s results in clinical practice.
  • EBM Reviews – Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR) – (Subscribed resource). As part of the Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Collection, this bibliographic database contains over 300,000 references of controlled or randomized controlled trials. The records within this database are searchable and include those trials indexed in Medline, EMBASE and those chosen by Cochrane and other contributors.
  • EBM Reviews – Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) – (Subscribed resource) The EBM Reviews – Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full-text systematic reviews on various topics in medicine. Prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, the reviews are presented as complete reviews or protocols for reviews underway. Users are able to search fields and browse topics within the database. There are links from source references to Medline and Ovid Full Text.
  • EBM Reviews – Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) – (Subscribed resource) DARE is a full-text database that contains brief critical assessments of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in areas such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.

 

Evidence-Based Medicine Journals

 

Additional Evidence-based Medicine Resources

  • National Guideline Clearinghouse – (Free resource) The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) provides structured abstracts of more than 2,000 health guidelines developed by federal agencies and national and international medical associations and organizations. Developed by the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality, the clearinghouse offers PDA downloads side-by-side guideline comparisons, links to full-text when available, and a searchable annotated bibliography database.
  • Agency for HealthCare Research & Quality – (Free resource) The website of the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality organizes and provides clinical information, data & surveys, consumer health, public health preparedness information, quality assessment tools, and funding opportunities for healthcare and public policy decision makers.
  • Health Services/Technology Assessment Text – (Free resource) Developed by the National Library of Medicine, Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) is a searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments, quick-reference guides for clinicians, consumer health brochures, evidence reports, and health information.
  • Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford, England) – (Free resource) CEBM aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care through conferences, workshops and EBM tools so that all health care professionals can maintain the highest standards of medicine.
  • Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto) – (Free resource) The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.

 

EBM Pediatrics

University of Michigan’s Evidence-Based Pediatrics Web Site – (Free resource) “Welcome to the University of Michigan’s Evidence-Based Pediatrics web site. This page serves as a resource for our residents and faculty who are developing skills in the practice of evidence-based pediatrics. In addition, we have developed a pediatric journal club which focuses on the teaching and learning of evidence-based medicine skills.”-Publisher’s description.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Pediatric Evidence-Based Guidelines – (Free resource) “The James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence is dedicated to sharing its expertise and knowledge. The pediatric evidence-based care guidelines developed at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are developed by experts, patients and families to help pediatricians provide the best possible care to patients.”-Publisher’s description.

 

EBM Calculators

Calculate by QxMD – (Free resource) “Calculate’ is a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, freely available to the medical community.”-Publisher description.
Free Medical Calculator Apps (Meharry LibGuides) – “LibGuides is an easy to use Content Management System used by many thousands of libraries worldwide. Librarians use it to curate knowledge and share information by creating online Guides on any topic, subject, course, on any process, on anything.”-Publisher’s description.

UpToDate Calculators – (Subscribed resource)Some of the calculators include: Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, General Surgery, Hematology, Hospital Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Obstetrics, Oncology, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Pulmonology, and Rheumatology.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto) Stats Calculator – (Free resource) “The CEBM Statistics Calculator was created for your own personal use and testing purposes. It is to be used as a guide only. Medical decisions should NOT be based solely on the results of this program. Although this program has been tested thoroughly, the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed.”-Publisher’s description.

 

EBM Books (Subscribed resources)

How to Read a Paper: the Basics of Evidence Based Medicine – 2nd edition, 2000.
Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit (2002) – 1st edition, 2002.
Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit (2006) – 2nd edition, 2006.
Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: a Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice – 2nd edition, 2008.