Library Guides: Public Health: Evidence-Based Public Health

Search Engines

SUMSearch2
SUMSearch simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines from multiple sources.
TRIP
TRIP Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
OpenMD.com
Health search engine spanning multiple sources and government databases
Mednar - North Grey Literature Collection
Medically-focused federated search engine that queries authoritative medical sites in real time

EBPH Resources

The Campbell Collaboration
Plain language synthesis of EBPH resources
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Regularly updated systematic reviews and protocols
The Community Guide
EBPH Aggregator of community preventative services that are cost-effective and intervention-focused
County Health Rankings
Annual rankings of community health by locality
Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER)
Register of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide
EPPI-Centre Evidence Library
Systematic reviews of research evidence in the fields of education, health promotion and public health
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project website based at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts
Health Evidence
Searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions
National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Health services research, including practice guidelines and technology assessments
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project - Pre-formulated evidenced-based search strategies for selected Healthy People 2010 focus areas
Public Health +
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) searchable database of critically appraised articles
PubMed Clinical Queries
Evidence-based searching within the Medline database

Guidelines

AccessMedicine
Guidelines - CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care, 2009
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
UpToDate

EBPH Tutorials

Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
Adapted from the Users' Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA