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Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) (Ovid) _________________________________________________________
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Available to the TWU community together with The Electronic Health Library of BC (50 simultaneous users province wide)
   
Exporting Citations: Instructions for exporting from Ovid into RefWorks
   
Subject Area: Clinical medicine, evidence based medicine, nursing, and life sciences
   
Resource Type: Index with some linked full text.

Systematic reviews of topics; article reviews; and access to definitive controlled trials.

   
Description:

EBMR, a definitive resource in evidence based medicine, combines 4 of the most trusted EBM resources into one databases: Includes the following databases:

  • Entire Collection
  • Reviews of Topics
  • Article Reviews
    • ACP Journal Club (full-text): (From 1991) The editors of ACP Journal Club screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. Enhanced abstracts of the chosen articles are then written, including commentaries on the applicability of these studies to clinical practice.
  • Definitive Controlled Trials
    • Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials: This bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials was created as part of an international effort to create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. It consists of over 350,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care, and imposes quality control standards on included references to ensure that only reports of definite randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials are included.
    • Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) - NEW!
      Produced by the Cochrane group, CMR is a bibliography of more than 9,000 references to controlled trials in journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and reports, and other publications of methodologies used in health studies. Content is constantly being expanded upon via an extensive hand-searching program and the development of a series of search strategies in MEDLINE and EMBASE.
  • Interventions
    • Health Technology Assessments (HTA) - NEW!
      Also produced by the CRD, in collaboration with Sweden's INAHTA Secretariat, HTA brings together details on ongoing studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions
    • NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) - NEW!
      Produced by the CRD, this database provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare interventions, with more than 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Additional Features of OVID's EBMR

  • Link from EBMR to MEDLINE and Ovid full text journals
  • Link from the MEDLINE abstract of the evaluated article to the EBM review
  • Link from the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to the corresponding reviews of ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and DARE
  • Limit a search in MEDLINE to just those citations reviewed in the EBMR Collection
   
Formats Indexed: Journal articles, systematic reviews
Update Frequency: Quarterly
Coverage: 1991 - present
Interface:

OVID Technologies

Help | More Information:

Ovid Technologies Predefined Multifile Field Guide Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Full Text Multifile (Tutorial)

See How to search OVID evidence-based medicine databases for more information.

OvidSP Resource Center:
The OvidSP Resource Center continues to be your source for materials and training to help you to become familiar with the OvidSP platform:

Need help...contact a TWU reference librarian at the Information desk, or, Telephone: 604-513-2121 extension 3903, or, Ask A Librarian Online


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