Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR)

Benefits

Savings against direct subscription.

Important dates

Agreement start: 1 October 2017

Agreement end: 31 December 2018

Licences are for a 12 month subscription starting on or before 31 December 2018

Licence type

Site licence

Commitment Period

This agreement is of 10 months duration and will be extended on an annual basis. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period.

Trial

A free 30 trial is available on application to help@chest.ac.uk with your IP address range

Eligible Institutions

• Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
• Other organisations aligned with Eduserv’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Eduserv will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

This agreement has been brokered because of the wishes we’ve received for this content.

Supplier Details

Owner: Wolters Kluwer Health (Medical Research) Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number1776213), whose principal place of business is at Citi Building, Floor 41, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LQ.

Service Provider: Ovid Platform

Product Description

Ovid’s Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) support the international movement towards integrating EBM into clinical practice by bringing this “best evidence” from medical research to the bedside, clinic, and community.

Healthcare professionals around the world look to evidence-based medicine (EBM) as the new standard for clinical care. EBM promotes care that is both experienced-based and clinically proven by integrating the practitioner’s clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence.

EBM is supported by healthcare institutions worldwide, including the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Cochrane Collaboration, and the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD).

Comprehensive integration with MEDLINE

Topic Reviews

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - produced by Cochrane Collaboration

These reviews allow clinicians to get fast, "bottom line" answers to their most commonly-asked questions, based on a comprehensive and expert analysis of the available medical literature. Includes links to PDFs of the Topic Reviews, the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR), full-text methodology reviews that summarize the empirical basis for decisions about methods in systematic reviews (includes complete reviews and protocols).

The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) (please note that, though the NHS is no longer updating the content in this database, the archive of the data continues to be accessible on the Ovid platform)

Selected systematic reviews on the effectiveness of clinical interventions and policies from databases such as MEDLINE and through manual review of the primary literature. These high-quality reviews are based on evaluation of literature searching, inclusion criteria, study assessment, and synthesis. Selected articles are summarized and evaluated in comprehensive full-text reports.

Health Technology Assessments (HTA) - NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
In collaboration with Sweden’s International Network of Agencies of Health Technology Assessment, HTA brings together details on ongoing studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions. It contains 4,000 records of completed and ongoing assessments from members of INAHTA.

NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) - NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
(please note that, though the NHS is no longer updating the content in this database, the archive of the data continues to be accessible on the Ovid platform)

Over 6,000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Article Reviews

ACP Journal Club - American College of Physicians
Enhanced abstracts of clinically relevant and sound studies published in top clinical journals. They include commentaries on the applicability of these studies to clinical practice.

Definitive Controlled Trials
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - Cochrane Collaboration
Over 350,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care, and imposes quality control standards on included references to ensure that only reports of definite randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials are included.

Methodology Reviews

Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
A bibliography of more than 9,000 references to controlled trials in journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and reports, and other publications of methodologies used in health studies.

Access and Identity Management Solution

Technical Function Specification

The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.

Updates

All updates during the subscription period are included at no additional cost.

Alterations/Additions

New platform functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge

Trials

A free 30 trial is available on application to help@chest.ac.uk with your IP address range. 

Login information

Supplier: http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.cgi

Technical Support

Support will be provided via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Contact details:

• email: support@ovid.com
• phone: 020 3197 6660