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AHCPR Clinical Information: Evidence-based practice, clinical practice guidelines, preventive services, technology assessments, outcomes research, Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services 2nd ed, 1998 (full text)
Bandolier: Evidence-based practice, Bandolier is a journal produced monthly by the Oxford Anglia NHS Region in the UK. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine. The editors are Dr Andrew Moore, Dr Henry McQuay and Dr Muir Gray.
Cochrane Collaboration: The Cochrane Collaboration facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of systematic overviews of the effects of health care. Systematic review involves the meta-analysis of studies (usually RCT's) meeting set criteria intended to minimize bias. See also the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, a growing collection of the abstracts of the reviews carried on by Cochrane contributors. Full text is available only by subscription. Alberta physicians can get access to the Cochrane Collaboration via the Health Knowledge Network.

DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: Systematic reviews are identified from a variety of sources and assessed according to a set of quality criteria. For good quality reviews, detailed structured abstracts describing the methodology, results and conclusions are produced. Comments on the overall quality of reviews and their implications for health care are also included. Search DARE now.

NLM - PubMed: The National Library of Medicine's excellent search tool for accessing the active MEDLINE database. Search by free text, author, journal name, or Medical Subject Heading (MeSH). The power of this tool lies in the 'Related Documents' button/link. When you find one 'good' article, clicking on 'Related Documents' will automatically search for others of a similar nature. Recently links to major medical journals have been added, often giving one access online to full text articles.
If you prefer to build your search step by step, use the Advanced Search. Searching for clinical information related to therapy, diagnosis, etiology, or prognosis -- use the Clinical Query Search

Health Knowledge Network (OVID): Access to Health Knowledge Network is limited (registration details).
HKN provides access to MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, CINAHL, CancerLit, and PsychINFO databases using the OVID search engine.

HighWire Press: Excellent Resource!
This link is billed as an Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries. It is a compendium of links to a large selection of medical and scientific journals with button access to content areas within these journals webpages such as the "Current Issue", "Future Content", "Search Articles", "Browse Archive" and "How to Subscribe"

Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Dermatology, Archives of Opthalmology, Archives of Neurology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Archives of Otolaryngology, Archives of Surgery, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine: Features: Abstracts, Full text of selected articles, Table of Contents email service ...

American Family Physician: Features: full text articles designed to meet the needs of Family Physicians. Offers patient datasheets on selected topics prepared by the authors of the articles.

Brain: Features: Tables of Contents and Abstracts freely available to everyone, for issues published since 1996. Full-text articles are available from Volume 120 Issue 1 onwards for current subscribers who have registered for free online access.

BMJ - British Medical Journal: This site features full text BMJ articles, links to PubMed from the article, PDF (Adobe Acrobat) copies of the article, and the ability to comment on articles and to receive a message by email when someone has cited a specific article.

JAMA: Features: Abstracts, Full text of selected articles, link to Contempa 1999 (Updates linking evidence and experience) ...

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Features: Table of Contents, Abstracts and Full text of selected articles...

Journal of the National Cancer Institute - (JNCI Cancer Spectrum): Tables of Contents and Abstracts are freely available for issues published since 1997. Full-text access is restricted to current subscribers who have registered for free online access.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Center for Disease Control): Features: RSS Feeds, Full text and Adobe Acrobat pdf files, and links to MMWR Reports, Summaries of Reports and surveillance, Public Health Resouces, and general information (e.g. Continuing education). Also has a good search service and an A-Z Directory of Diseases

New England Journal of Medicine: Features: Abstracts, Full text available to subscribers ...


Health Canada Online: Provides links to online newsletters, journals and digests.

Martindale Virtual Medical Centre - be sure to scroll down to view a list of the virtual specialty centres: A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containing over 15,700 teaching files, over 139,600 Medical Cases & Grand Rounds; 64,200 Teaching Files, 1,455 Courses/Textbooks; 2,155 Teaching Modules,
510 Journals; 4,630 Databases, Atlases & Image Databases & 1,000's of Videos/Movies
MedWeb @ emory university: A classified and sub-classified listing of medical resources

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