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The following databases are available to Cleveland Clinic employees with Library Accounts in good standing. Use the links on these pages to access the databases from off campus, using your Library Account.


Evidence Based Medicine Resources:

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Includes evidence-based practices, outcomes & effectiveness, preventative care, clinical guidelines, funding opportunities and much more.

CCF Consumer Health Information Center
Information on over 900 health topics, community programs, clinical trials, support groups and educational classes. The health information presented on this site has been approved by Cleveland Clinic specialists, unless otherwise noted.

CCF Disease Management Project
An online medical resource providing healthcare professionals with convenient, quick, credible and precise information to assist in patient care.

Centerwatch
Provides an extensive list of IRB approved clinical trials being conducted internationally as well as newly approved FDA drugs and therapies. NOTE: not all information is free.

Clinical Trials
Contains approximately 9,100 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies and private industry on a wide range of diseases and conditions.

Cochrane Databases (only for employees with library accounts)
Search for evidence based medicine in the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews (CDSR) and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR).

Evidence Based Medicine Databases via Ovid (only for employees with library accounts)
ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Central register of Controlled Trials(CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE).

MD Consult (only for employees with library accounts)
Provides full-text information (textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, patient education handouts) for use in clinical patient care.

MEDLINE (via Ovid) (only for employees with library accounts)
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences.

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Natural and Alternative Treatments (only for employees with library accounts)
Consists of over 550 articles on Herbs and Supplements, Conditions, Drug Interaction, Alternative Therapies and Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added as they appear. This evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing reliable information without exaggeration or misrepresentation.

PDQ CancerNet
PDQ is a database containing the latest information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics and supportive care, plus clinical trials.

PubMed Clinical Queries (with Cleveland Clinic holdings links)
Search MEDLINE using the PubMed filters: Clinical Queries or Systematic Reviews.

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  Last updated: February 11, 2008 | CCF library staff