Resource Guides: Pediatric Resources: Evidence-Based Information Resources

EBM Pyramid

Cochrane Library (Cochrane Collaboration) This link opens in a new window
Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. Gold standard for systematic reviews.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
Point of care resource for clinical support and decision making

ACP Journal Club
Abstracts of articles containing strong evidence from within the primary literature.
ECRI Guidelines Trust
Publicly available web-based repository of evidence based clinical practice guidelines, with summaries and ratings. (Most content was previously from the National Guideline Clearinghouse created by the federal government Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and professional medical societies.)
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Database of evidence-based recommendations in areas of prevention and screening.
PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed/MEDLINE search feature that filters results in order to display only articles backed by good evidence. NOTE: At the PubMed home page, choose the Clinical Queries option from the choices under "PubMed Tools."
TRIP Database
An EBM search engine that searches across multiple evidence-based information sites.

Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
Provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Now includes contributors from academic institutions.
5-Minute Consult This link opens in a new window
Point of care resource for clinical support and decision making
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is a comprehensive clinical information resource specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice.