Preappraised Evidence
Instead of setting up your own criteria for your evidence alert, you may also wish to receive alerts from services where trusted colleagues have already filtered the available evidence and will send you notices for practice changing updates. Free and library licensed services are listed below.
- ACP Journal Club"ACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals. Once a bimonthly stand-alone journal, ACP Journal Club is a monthly feature of Annals of Internal Medicine. Research staff and clinical editors rigorously assess the scientific merit of the medical literature as it is published and a worldwide panel of over 5000 physicians assesses the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of rigorous studies."
- NEJM Journal WatchEditors of Journal Watch survey >250 core medical journals in 12 specialties in order to provide expert clinical summaries of key articles.
- OBESITY+OBESITY+ is a service of McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit. It incorporates the McMaster PLUS email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the medical literature on obesity from the top 110 clinical journals. To search this database, you must first register for an account.
- KT+ (Knowledge Translation+)The best evidence relevant to knowledge translation in the areas of quality improvement, continuing medical education, computerized clinical decision support, health services research and patient adherence, identified from over 130 premier clinical journals.
- Pain+ CPNSystematic review of over 110 journals (including all Cochrane reviews relevant to pain management) with selection of articles by expert research staff concerning the cause, course, diagnosis, prediction, prevention, and treatment of pain problems, quality improvement and health economics. Users can register to receive e-mail alerts about new evidence.
- TRIP This link opens in a new windowTrip is a free clinical search engine designed to allow users find high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip includes links to systematic reviews, EBM synopses, professional guidelines, controlled clinical trials, and "key primary research." Create a personal account to send automated searches to your email.
- MentalHealth PlusMentalHealth+ provides access to current best evidence from health care research, to support evidence-based clinical decisions i mental health. This alerting service is based on 110 premier clinical journals.
- Rapid Recommendations from the BMJThe Rapid Recommendations team from MAGIC, including The BMJ, identify and confirm which studies might change practice and are of interest to readers. Researchers then perform systematic reviews on the benefit and harm of the intervention, baseline risk of important outcomes, and the values and preferences of patients. In parallel a panel including researchers, patients, and doctors choose the most important outcomes. They will consider the systematic reviews and evaluate the evidence using a GRADE approach, and produce recommendations for practice.
- EvidenceAlertsEvidenceAlerts is an Internet service that notifies physicians and researchers about newly-published clinical studies. Researchers at the McMaster Health Information Unit find the highest quality studies, reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from 107 premier clinical journals and these articles are rated by practicing physicians for clinical relevance and interest. Alerts are curated to your own clinical interests. Must register for an account.
Tip: Want Full Text?
Did you set up an account in TRIP or any of the McMaster Evidence Based alerting services in the list above? As part of your profile, be sure to select Des Moines University as either your institution (TRIP) or as a PubMed Outside Tool (McMaster). This is the same linking we use to connect you to our full text subscriptions via the purple button in Pubmed. You'll be able to go from citation to full text within these programs if you remember this extra step in your registration.
