Public Health: Evidence-Based Public Health

SUMSearch simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines from multiple sources.

TRIP Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.

Health search engine spanning multiple sources and government databases

Medically-focused federated search engine that queries authoritative medical sites in real time

Plain language synthesis of EBPH resources

Regularly updated systematic reviews and protocols

EBPH Aggregator of community preventative services that are cost-effective and intervention-focused

Annual rankings of community health by locality

Register of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide

Systematic reviews of research evidence in the fields of education, health promotion and public health

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project website based at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts

Searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions

Health services research, including practice guidelines and technology assessments

Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project - Pre-formulated evidenced-based search strategies for selected Healthy People 2010 focus areas

National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) searchable database of critically appraised articles

Evidence-based searching within the Medline database

Guidelines - CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care, 2009

Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

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