Evidence Based Summaries - Point of Care Resources
- Best Practice This link opens in a new window A decision-support tool at the point of care. Latest research evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion are combined and presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Incorporates BMJ Clinical Evidence.
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- DynaMed This link opens in a new window Evidence-based reference tool of diseases, disorders, and symptoms including etiology, history and research findings, diagnosis, prognosis , treatment and prevention and drug information.
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- OrthoEvidence This link opens in a new window For orthopaedics. Contains evidence-based summaries, pre-appraised by orthopaedic medical experts, and includes Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports, blogs, podcasts.
What are Evidence Based Summaries?
Evidence-based Summary Tools usually contain the latest information on:
- Epidemiology/ Prevalence
- Etiology
- History & Physical
- Diagnosis/ Differential Diagnoses
- Diagnostic Tests (Sensitivity & Specificity)
- Normal Lab Values
- Clinical Prediction Rules
- Treatment (with levels or grades of evidence)
- Complications & Prognosis
- Prevention & Screening
- Guidelines
- Patient Handouts
Evidence-based Summaries are also called Evidence-based textbooks. They are very good resources for background information.
Quality Check : Always look at the date of the last revision and the age of the references
