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- Description
- Focusing on high quality evidence to support health care providers in their clinical decision
making, the Cochrane Library includes 6 databases which may be searched as a group or
individually. The primary resource, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
includes more than 4,650 reviews and 2,015 protocols which have been prepared by a highly
credentialed group to determine if an intervention for a specific disease or other problem is
effective. The reviews include a summary of research results from random controlled trials,
the group's meta-analysis, links to references, and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing,
The other databases include Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, a database of
quality assessments and review summaries not conducted by Cochrane, Cochrane Central Register of
Controlled Trials, the world's largest directory of random controlled trials with journal
article citations in the entries, Cochrane Methodology Register, a bibliography of books
and journal articles where researchers have reported on the methods used in random clinical trials,
Health Technology Assessment Database, a collection of assessment studies of medical,
social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions, and the NHS Economic
Evaluation Database, which identifies information about cost-effectiveness of interventions.
- Help
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Help is available from within the database using the Help button in the upper right corner of the
search screen.
A Search Manual is
available as well as a Quick Reference Guide [PDF]. Three tutorials,
The Cochrane Library: An
Introduction, Advanced and MeSH
searching, and Saved Searches and Setting Up
Alerts are offered by the content provider to introduce new users to the searching process.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- User tools and features
- MeSH searching, saved searches, alerts.
- Dates covered
- 2002+.
- Updating frequency
- When new evidence is available, reviews are updated. Content is added to the database quarterly.
- Sources
- More than 2,000 healthcare journals.
- Type of coverage
- Reviews and protocols in PDF or HTML formats, journal article citations and abstracts, indexing.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Wiley-Blackwell
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