Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK16710/
The Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts is a free, Web-based resource of full-text
documents including guidelines that provide health information and support healthcare
decision making for healthcare providers, health service researchers, policymakers, payers,
consumers, and the information professionals who serve these groups.Joanna Briggs Institute
http://www.joannabriggs.org/
The Joanna Briggs Institute is an International Research and Development Unit of Royal Adelaide
Hospital and an Affiliated Institute of the University of Adelaide that supports the development
and dissemination of international systematic reviews and summaries of best practices to
consumers, healthcare professionals, and all levels of the healthcare systems, governments, and
service provider units.Physiotherapy Evidence Database
http://www.pedro.org.au/
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, which was developed to provide rapid access
to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/education/resed/ebm/practice_guidelines.html
This site, compiled by the UCSF School of Medicine, includes links to guidelines from professional
organizations.SUM Search
http://sumsearch.org/
SUM Search provides references to answer clinical questions about diagnosis, etiology, prognosis,
and therapy (plus physical findings, adverse treatment effects, and screening/prevention) by
searching sources such as Merck Manual, MEDLINE, National Guideline Clearinghouse from
AHRQ, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, and Pub Med.The Cochrane Library
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com
The Cochrane Library provides systematic reviews related to clinical topics. The complete reviews
are available by subscription, either on CD-ROM or via the Internet. Abstracts of the reviews are
available on the website.BOX 12-2 Databases to Search for Evidence (continued)
322 CHAPTER 12 Other Sources of Evidence