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Answering Clinical Questions: UWA & other resources

Clinical evidence based practice resources

Online Resources

This table directs you to key information resources for answering clinical questions and which levels of evidence each contain.

Resource
App
info
Tutorials & help
Decision support systems
Evidence based summaries
Evidence based guidelines
Systematic
reviews
Synopses of
single studies
Single
studies
BMJ Best Practice Best Practice video tutorials cross check check cross cross cross
ClinicalKey ClinicalKey video library cross check check check check check
CINAHL Plus (Ebscohost)

Searching tutorials - Basic & Advanced

   cross   
cross
cross
check
check
check
Cochrane Library *
 

Cochrane Library training hub

Searching the Cochrane Library

cross
cross
cross
check
check
check
DOSS - Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (Ebscohost)
DOSS Ebsco help
cross
cross
cross
check
check
check
Embase (Ovid)
 

Embase on Ovid

Embase advanced techniques

cross
cross
cross
check
check
check
Therapeutic Guidelines FAQs and support cross check check cross cross cross
Informit Health Collection
 
cross
cross
cross
check
check
check
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP (Ovid)
 
JBI EBP on Ovid
cross
check
check
check
cross
cross
Medline (Ovid)  

Medline on Ovid

Medline special techniques

cross cross cross check check check
PubMed *

PubMed online training

cross

cross
cross
check
check
check
Psycinfo (Ovid)
 
PsycInfo on Ovid
cross
cross
cross
check
check
check
Trip database *
Free: iOS
How to use Trip
cross
check
check
check
check
check
UpToDate UpToDate conducting a search cross check check cross cross cross
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Murtagh's General Practice                
Merck Index
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visible Body
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  *     Freely available resource

 UWA institutional app available. Download app on App Store or Google Play. Some resources may require prior registration using your UWA account via the OneSearch link. 

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