Evidence-Based Practice: EBP Resources

Clinical practice guidelines and briefer clinical recommendations from the American Association of Family Physicians.

Clinical practice guidelines from the American College of Physicians. Some topics include evidence reviews and clinical recommendations instead of complete guidelines.

Guidelines for a variety of oral health topics from the American Dental Association's Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry.

Practice guidelines and clinical recommendations specific to cancer from Cancer Care Ontario.

Database of approximately 1,200 clinical guidelines across specialties developed or endorsed by Canadian medical organizations and maintained by the Canadian Medical Association.

Online library of mostly freely accessible guidelines from a variety of governmental and professional organization sources. Some guidelines include Trust Scorecards to assess their methodological rigor and transparency. Free registration is required.

Collection of clinical guidelines in endocrinology. Free registration required.

Collection of roughly 50 current guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Over 300 freely available current clinical practice guidelines from the UK's National Institute for Heath and Care Excellence. Guidelines are relevant to primary care, OB/GYN, infectious disease, psychiatry, gastroenterology, oncology, and more.

High-quality systematic reviews, clinical trials registry, and brief evidence-based clinical answers from the Cochrane Collaboration.

Evidence-based point-of-care tool for health professionals.

ClinicalKey contains a variety of evidence-based content. Browse clinical overviews, drug information, calculators, and practice guidelines, linked beneath the main search bar.

Extensive, easily searchable information on dosing, approved uses, contraindications, adverse effects, drug interactions, pregnancy safety, and more for drugs.

Database of more than 32 million citations from all areas of the biomedical literature.

Focuses on literature from nursing and allied health.

Database of biomedical literature and conference abstracts.

Broad database of journals, books, data, and conference proceedings from the sciences, social sciences, and more.

Focuses on behavioral sciences and mental health.

Focuses on sports medicine, sports psychology, and related areas.

The PubMed clinical queries search function applies predefined filters to your searches so only clinical studies are returned.

Article series from JAMA on the evidence-based use of medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic testing to diagnose a wide variety of conditions.