Evidence-Based Dentistry Resources
- PubMed Clinical Queries This link opens in a new window"This tool uses predefined filters to help you quickly refine PubMed searches on clinical or disease-specific topics. To use this tool, enter your search terms in the search bar and select filters before searching."
- BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new windowBMJ Best Practice is a tool that supports decision-making at the point of care. Uniquely designed to help healthcare professionals follow the clinical workflow. Evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion are combined in a single source and presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials This link opens in a new windowEBM database containing bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new windowA full-text EBM database containing meta-reviews of current medical research.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThis multifile database allows simultaneous searching of EBM Review databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
- Essential Evidence Plus & AHFS DI Essentials This link opens in a new windowBest-evidence answers to clinical questions such as symptoms, diseases, drugs, and other treatment regimens. Presents highly structured content, tightly integrated and hyperlinked to thousands of calculators, articles, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, and evidence summaries within EE+. Limited to 10 concurrent users.
- Health Evidence This link opens in a new window"Search healthevidence.org for access to 7,475 quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions, including cost data. We search the published literature and compile public health relevant reviews -- eliminating your need to search and screen individual databases."
- ADA Center for Evidence-Based DentistryEvidence-based clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and primary studies on dentistry.
- EBM Search Process ChartAlumni Medical Library has outlined in this flowchart the steps of the EBM search process. For a tutorial of this process, please see the Videos & Tutorials tab of this box.
- PubMed Clinical Queries Search TipsThis webpage provides search tips for PubMed Click Queries, which is linked in the databases tab of this box.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Evidence-based PracticeThe Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality puts out reports from its Evidence-Based Practice Center in a searchable database.
- ClinicalTrials.govThis database from the National Library of Medicine allows searching for clinical trials by condition, intervention, location, and more.
- MedlinePlus: Evaluating Health InformationMedlinePlus is a freely available, trusted health information resource that is great for background information or point of care handouts for patients.
- PROMIS"Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is a set of person-centered measures that evaluates and monitors physical, mental, and social health in adults and children."
- Evidence-Based Dentistry Research GuideThis EBD research guide from UNC Libraries is very thorough and contains lots of great, evidence-based dental resources.
- JBI"JBI is a global organisation promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions that improve health and health service delivery."
- ADA: Clinical Practice GuidelinesUp-to-date clinical practice guidelines and dental evidence, including systematic reviews, from the American Dental Association.
- Cochrane Oral Health GroupCochrane outlines gold-standard systematic reviews and are a well-known, trusted resource for evidence-based information. This is their oral health-specific site.
- International Association for Dental TraumatologyA trusted, world-wide resource focus on the prevention of dental trauma.
- Guideline CentralAn online guideline library that collects and makes available guidelines from associations and organizations across all medical fields.
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Finding Information Framework
This framework will guide you to:
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Categorize your questions
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Understand types of information resources
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Match the right resource to your questions
A project of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine EBM Vertical Integration Group
