1. Sources of systematic reviews Arash Etemadi, MD PhD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

2. Cochrane Collaboration International non-profit organisation that prepares, maintains, and disseminates systematic up-to-date reviews of health care interventions

3. The Cochrane Library www.thecochranelibrary.com

4. THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION Wiley publishes the Cochrane Library for The Cochrane Collaboration Structure - established as an international organisation in 1993, registered as a charity in the U.K. Aim - to help people make well-informed decisions about health care. How - by preparing and maintaining, and promoting access to, systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. Publishing Output – The Cochrane Library

5. The Cochrane Library is a collection of Evidence-Based Medicine databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) The Cochrane Database of Reviews of Effects (Other Reviews) The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical Trials) The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methods Reviews) The Cochrane Methodology Register (Methods Studies) Health Technology Assessment Database (Technology Assessments) NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations) It also contains information about The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups WHAT IS THE COCHRANE LIBRARY?

6. More than 2249 Full text Cochrane Reviews (html & PDF format*) The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews How large is the Cochrane Reviews database? More than 1539 Protocols (Reviews in progress) All Reviews are regularly updated with the latest evidence * Unique feature not available anywhere else!

7. “searching for all text schizo, drugs, atypical and antipsychotic. in All Fields in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews" An Advanced Search of the Cochrane Library…

8. … Returns the following results: You can toggle between results listed for the different databases in The Cochrane Library here Use these links to restrict your search results to Reviews only, or Protocols (reviews in progress) only. Save or edit your search using these links. An Advanced Search of the Cochrane Library…

9. Search History Select Search History. To combine searches, enter their number together with Boolean operator of choice – in this case AND.

10. Your combined search will then appear in your Search History. Search History

12. Other sources The Guide to Community Preventive Services http://www.thecommunityguide.org/

13. Other sources Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co- ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk

14. Other sources Centre for Reviews and Dissemination http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd

15. CRD databases

16. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)  Produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England  Full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals  No controlled vocabulary

17. Other sources The Campbell Collaboration http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/

18. Quality-added articles ACP (American College of Physicians) Journal Club Evidence-Based Medicine Best Evidence Unlike Cochrane Library, their records are not updated

19. ACP Journal Club  Database consists of two journals:  ACP Journal Club  Evidence-Based Medicine (BMJ)  Titles merged in 2000; new content appears in ACP Journal Club  Editors of ACP Journal Club:  screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant  write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice  No controlled vocabulary

22. Clinical Evidence A publication that summarizes the results of reviews and other high quality evidence to answer specific clinical questions http://www.mdconsult.com/ http://www.nursingconsult.com/ http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html

27. DynaMed A clinical reference tool created by a physicians for physicians and other health care professionals For use primarily at the point-of-care With clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics Updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services

28. Bibliographic databases MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE) and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)