| Internet Tools for Evidence-Based Medicine | ||
| PubMed | PubMed is a free service from the National Library of Medicine that covers most of the world's biomedical literature back to 1966. A general search on any significant topic is likely to produce hundreds, if not thousands, of citations. Fortunately there is a method to focus on articles that contain high quality evidence — Clnical Queries (partial screen shown at right). |  |
| BMJ | The British Medical Journal is one of the oldest, free, full text medical journals on the Web and frequently includes A POEM a Month and other evidence-based articles. Search strategy should include one of the following: evidence or evidence review. |  |
| AFP | The American Family Physician is published online each month by the AAFP and includes POEMs and Tips from Other Journals. Search strategy should include one of the following: evidence or evidence review. The site also provides an index of previously published clinical algorithms. |  |
| Cochrane | The Cochrane Collaboration publishes evidence-based abstracts each month (full text is available only by subscription). Search the abstracts based on the condition name. |  |
| CEBM | The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine is a UK based group that publishes what they call Critically Appraised Topics (CATs). | No search engine currently available. |
| Medscape | Medscape is one of the oldest and most successful medical news and ejournal sites. Search strategy should include evidence based review prior to diagnosis, treatment, etc.; and the name of the condition. Also allows searching for drug info and Cochrane |
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| Others |
ACP Journal Club (members only) |
Other evidence-based resources on the Web. |
| Richard Rathe, MD :: Sept 20, 2003 :: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/omi/docs/inet-ebm/ | ||