Evidence-Based Practice: Search

This NLM Website provides free access to MEDLINE and methodological filters built into the search strategies.

ACP Journal Club's general purpose is to select published articles according to explicit criteria and abstract those studies and reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians. These articles are summarized in "value-added" abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.

The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. [Access to abstracts is free.]

Articles focus on diagnosis through physical examination. This series now includes over 40 articles studying the validity of individual components of the physical examination.

The TRIP Database is a meta-search engine that searches across 61 EBM sites of high-quality medical information, including online journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM.