Resources to Guide & Track Your Search
Health departments are welcome to adapt this tool. Requirements
for adapting this tool include: Health Evidence and Peel Health are
acknowledged for tool development; and adapted tool cannot be used
for profit (not to be sold).Question Searched:
Insert the question that you are conducting this search to
answer. Remember PICO: Population, Intervention, Comparison,
Outcome(s)
See Developing an Efficient Search Strategy Using PICOP:
I:
Date Search Conducted: C:
O:
Level of the
6S PyramidPublicly Available
YES / NOCritical Appraisal Required
YES / NOTotal No. Results
(through search)Link to Saved Search Strategy & Results
(insert here)
SUMMARIES
Evidence-Based TextsNONOClinical Evidence
http://www.clinicalevidence.comDynamed
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamedStat!Ref Pier
http://pier.acponline.org/index.htmlUpToDate
http://www.uptodate.com
SUMMARIES
GuidelinesYESNOGuideline Advisory Committee (GAC)
http://www.gacguidelines.ca/index.cfm?pagepath=GAC_Endorsed_Guidelines&id=21080Note:
only archive accessible
YESYESNational Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC)
http://guideline.govNote: includes guidelines from the following
organizations
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Public Health Guidance
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PHG?textonly=false
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)
http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/index.asp Canadian Medical
Association (CMA Infobase)
http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54316/la_id/1.htm Center for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Turning Research into Practice
(TRIP) Database
http://www.tripdatabase.comNote: filter search by Guidelines
Level of the
6S PyramidPublicly Available
YES / NOCritical Appraisal Required
YES / NOTotal No. Results
(through search)Link to
Saved Search Strategy & Results
(insert here)
SYNOPSES OF SYNTHESESYESNOHealth Evidence
www.healthevidence.org
Note: summary statements via PDF icon
*access to full-text of articles limited
Center for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CMS2Web/
*access to full-text of articles limited
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) Health Technology Assessment
(HTA) Database
NONOEvidence-Based Abstract Journals
Note: prior to 2010
Evidence-Based Nursing http://ebn.bmj.com
Evidence-Based Medicine http://ebm.bmj.com Evidence-Based Mental
Health http://ebmh.bmj.com American College of Physicians Journal
Club (ACP Journal Club) www.acpjc.org
Level of the
6S PyramidPublicly Available
YES / NOCritical Appraisal Required
YES / NOTotal No. Results
(through search)Link to
Saved Search Strategy & Results
(insert here)
SYNTHESES
YESNOHealth Evidence
www.healthevidence.org
*access to full-text of articles limited
YESYESCDC
Guide to Community Preventive Services
www.thecommunityguide.org
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CMS2Web/
*access to full-text of articles limited
**quality filter applied
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) Health Technology Assessment
(HTA) Database McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery (McMaster
PLUS)http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_McMaster_PLUS_projects.aspx
*access to full-text limited
**quality filter applied
Public Health+
Nursing+
Obesity+
KT+
Rehab+
Evidence UpdatesEPPI-Centre http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk(reviews
related to health promotion, education, employment, social care,
crime and justice)
Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER)
http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/webdatabases/Intro.aspx?ID=2Cochrane
Collaboration
http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/
Note: only abstracts of syntheses
*access to full-text limited
PubMed Clinical Queries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml#reviewsNote:
under the limits tab, then publication type, click meta-analyses to
limit to meta-analyses
*access to full-text limitedTurning Research into Practice
(TRIP) Database
http://www.tripdatabase.comNote: filter search by systematic
reviews *access to full-text limited
NOYESCochrane Collaboration
Cochrane Library (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html
Level of the
6S PyramidPublicly Available
YES / NOCritical Appraisal Required
YES / NOTotal No. Results
(through search)Link to
Saved Search Strategy & Results
(insert here)
SYNOPSES OF STUDIESNONOEvidence-Based Abstract Journals
Note: prior to 2010
Evidence-Based Nursing http://ebn.bmj.com
Evidence-Based Medicine http://ebm.bmj.com Evidence-Based Mental
Health http://ebmh.bmj.com American College of Physicians Journal
Club (ACP Journal Club) www.acpjc.org
STUDIESYESYESMcMaster Health Knowledge Refinery (McMaster
PLUS)http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_McMaster_PLUS_projects.aspx
*access to full-text limited
**quality filter applied
Public Health+
Nursing+
Obesity+
KT+
Rehab+
Evidence Updates
PubMed Clinical Queries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml#reviews*access
to full-text limited
Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI)
http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/webdatabases/Intro.aspx?ID=5
Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) Database
http://www.tripdatabase.com*access to full-text limited
Have you used this tool?
We would appreciate hearing from those who have used the tool,
perspectives on its usefulness, how it was adapted, and any
suggestions for revision: [email protected].
How to cite tool:Robeson, P. & Yost, J. (2011). Resources to
Guide and Track Your Search. Hamilton, ON: Health Evidence.
Retrieved [insert date you downloaded this document e.g., April 26,
2011],
http://www.healthevidence.org/documents/practice-tools/HETools_ResourcesGuide&Track
YourSearch_18.Mar.2013.doc.
* Health Evidence is grateful to Peel Public Health,
Communicable Disease Division, for co-developing and field-testing
the November 2009 version of this document.
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