by Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian
Hardin Library has many evidence-based clinical tools for you to use in your practice or coursework.
Many have an app version available. See Mobile Resources Guide for installation.
- Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
- DynaMed Editorial Team monitors over 450 medical journals and guidelines organizations
- Team of practicing physicians appraises and summarizes the evidence
- Embedded citations of specific studies and DynaMed evidence levels
- Mobile app available
- Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
- Combines latest research evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion
- Step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
- Referenced studies are listed and full-text is linked when available
- Mobile app available
- Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
- Recognized faculty of experts synthesize the latest evidence and practices and provide detailed recommendations
- References are provided for recommendations
- Mobile app available
Essential Evidence Plus and AHFS DI Essentials
- Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
- Includes 13,000 conditions, diseases, and procedures
- Strength-of-evidence recommendation ratings
- Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool for drug information
- Strength of recommendation and strength of evidence ratings
- Includes many tools, including Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility, Drug Comparison, and more
- Mobile apps available
- Search the overviews in ClinicalKey using the dropdown menu by the search box
- Overviews that are easy-to-scan, actionable information on diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, screening, and prevention of diseases and conditions
- Content developed by Elsevier’s Point of Care Editorial team (global community of 4800 physicians)
- Mobile app of ClinicalKey available; look for results labeled as Clinical Overviews
- Truncated summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews
- Easy-to-read, clinically focused
- Actionable, and designed to inform decision-making at point-of-care
- Contains a clinical question, short answer, ability to drill down to evidence
- High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
- Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a gold-standard of medical literature
- Includes the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), a repository of trial citations
- Summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.
- Research staff and clinical editors rigorously assess scientific merit of medical literature
- Point-of-care search interface for PubMed
- Allows focusing search by clinical question type (therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, or clinical prediction guides)
- Can also focus searches on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 articles by category (treatment, mechanism, long COVID, and more)
- Evidence-based information and ratings for over 90,000 dietary supplements, natural medicines and integrative therapies
- Includes interaction checker, effectiveness checker, and a nutrient depletion checker
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