Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (University of Oxford) - EBHC tools
Cochrane Collaboration - all about Cochrane reviews and training resources
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination UK - guidance for undertaking systematic reviews
McMaster University Library - guide to EBM resources
Clinical Summaries contain detailed evidence-based summaries about healthcare topics and treatments. They are used primarily as clinical decision support resources.
RCSI Library users have access to three Clinical Summaries resources:
Cochrane Library - over 6,000 reviews on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions
Campbell Library - education, crime and justice and social welfare
Trip Database - searches multiple websites for reviews
PEDro Database - physiotherapy evidence based studies
NICE Evidence search - searches for evidence from a wide range of health and social care services
PROSPERO - an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care
INAHTA - the International Health Technology Assessments database
National Guideline Clearinghouse - international clinical practice guidelines
NICE - guidance from the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence
SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) - development of guidelines and their application into practice
Clinical Queries at PubMed - find review and studies by diagnosis, therapy, prognosis or prediction filters
Centre for Statistics in Medicine - resources, courses and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov - from the National Institutes of Health, US
ISRCTN Registry - search multiple registers of RCTs
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
CONSORT - recommendations for reporting RCTs.
National Cancer Institute - National Institutes of Health, US
LILACS - references to papers that have been published in a set of scientific and medical journals from Latin America and the Caribbean.