Safety Literature

Safety Literature

Safety Literature : http://www.safetylit.org/  This is an online database of current and older resources on injury prevention and safety promotion. Currently having around 325000 items, it covers scholarly journals from many nations and from several disciplines. The database contains current and backfile articles from over 9000 active scholarly journals and from the backfiles of 3160 "inactive" journals. The database contains articles from 6040 journals that are not included in PubMed. You can browse by subject, or search with simple or advanced searches. You could also subscribe to weekly bulletin which will fetch by email the latest records. Appeared in Volume 4 Issue…
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Cochrane Summaries

Cochrane Summaries

Cochrane Summaries The Cochrane Library has a database of "Systematic Reviews" which are reviews by experts who analyze large studies to find out what really matters. Cochrane Summaries give us the gist of the reviews in plain language - something that an educated consumer can understand or a doctor can use to communicate with a patient or health consumer. This is also useful for medical students - it is a great starting point to understand what constitutes evidence. And every summary has a link to the "Structured abstract" as well as the full review, which is available to us free,…
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PubMed Health

PubMed Health

PubMed Health Launched very recently by the National Library of Medicine, USA, PubMed Health provides reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers, as well as full technical reports. "Clinical effectiveness research" finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care. You can find a medical encyclopedia, a consumer section, guidelines, executive summaries and more. The site is expected to grow quickly with content for health professionals and consumers. Appeared in Volume 4 Issue 09-10 of QMedConnect
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