Evidence-Based Medicine

An Introduction to EBM

Sources for Finding Appraised Evidence: Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses

ACP Journal Club
Summaries of the best new evidence for internal medicine.
CINAHL
Filter search with Publication Type systematic review or meta-analysis
Cochrane Library
Search for systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials.
Dynamed
Summaries of clinical topics with links to guidelines, evidence, drug information.
Essential Evidence Plus
Clinical topic summaries and POEMS, Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters.
Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice Database
Limit search to systematic review, best practice information sheets, evidence summaries.
PubMed
Filter your results by Article Type Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
Trip
Free search engine for finding research evidence, systematic reviews, primary research, practice guidelines.
UpToDate
Clinical topic summaries, newest updates to practice, and drug information.

AccessMedicine
Medical textbooks, drug information, streaming video on current medical and health sciences topics.
ClinicalKey
Full text access to e-books and journal content, procedural videos, clinical calculators.
Health Sciences e-Books
Search by keyword, title, or subject for the most current editions of Rutgers Libraries medical and health sciences e-textbooks.

CENTRAL: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Search for randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.
CINAHL
Search for nursing, consumer health, alternative medicine, biomedicine research. Use Publication Type to limit to appropriate level of evidence.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, ClinicalTrials.gov provides current information about clinical research studies.
PubMed Clinical Queries
Search using pre-defined filters to locate clinical studies.
Web of Science
Search complete bibliographic data including abstracts, references, and citations.