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Sep 01 2022

Evidence-Based Clinical Tools Available To All University of Iowa Affiliates

Posted on September 1, 2022September 12, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian 

Hardin Library has many evidence-based clinical tools for you to use in your practice or coursework.

graphic cellphone with medical cross in the middle Many have an app version available.  See Mobile Resources Guide for installation.

DynaMed

  • 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

BMJ Best Practice

  • 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

UpToDate

  • 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

Micromedex

  • 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

Clinical Overviews

  • 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

Cochrane Clinical Answers

  • 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

Cochrane Library

  • 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

ACP Journal Club

  • 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 

PubMed Clinical Queries

  • 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)

Natural Medicines 

  • 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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